To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

"To Promote to the Status of an Idol; To Venerate, Adore." See "idol" and "-ize."

love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

To practice idolatry.