1. (v. t.) To love to excess; to idealize or worship; as, to idolize youth or a hero\.

2. (v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

3. (v. i.) To practice idolatry.

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