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US
/ˈaɪdəˌɫaɪzd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
an idolized wife
adored grandchildren
How To Use idolized In A Sentence
- Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
- He knows nothing of it yet. I idolized this poor unhappy child.
- I remember like about three years ago, I remember Walter and his wife Carol were having dinner at Mr. Chow's, and I remember going My God, I've kind of idolized Walter, I've been a fan for very many years, and so I just watched them. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Walter Matthau and Diane Keaton Discuss the Making of `Hanging Up' - February 10, 2000
- Denied parents for so much of the year, Angel had idolized Pedro.
- It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting. Archive 2010-01-01
- No wonder the Italian poet Petrarch, who idolised women, could not read her letters without exclamatory annotations in the margins.
- Rather, the founders idolized G-d alone -- faith in Him was stamped even on our money -- and brooked no shallow, hollow substitutes, Hollywood superstars included. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama's Soulless Obsession With Science and Math
- They had one child, a girl whom they idolized.
- She was not a typical middle-class girl in expensive clothes who idolized masculine negritude, but an ill-nourished, disturbed young woman who would have gone "for anyone sexy who offered her a cult, even if he'd been as white as milk. The Lessons of the Master
- My mother idolised my father and I know my father loved my mother deeply.