All idolize synonyms

verb idolize

• admire — If you admire someone or something, you like and respect them very much.
• venerate — to regard or treat with reverence; revere.
• adore — If you adore someone, you feel great love and admiration for them.
• revere — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
• glorify — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
• love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
• canonize — If a dead person is canonized, it is officially announced by the Catholic Church that he or she is a saint.
• apotheosize — to deify
• deify — If someone is deified, they are considered to be a god or are regarded with very great respect.
• reverence — a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.
• look up to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• put on a pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
• worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
• hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
• exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.