idolises

[US]/'aidəlaiz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. worship or admire someone as an idol
vi. worship idols.

Example Sentences

He will want to protect, please and idolise her.

Many teenagers idolise their favorite celebrities.

She used to idolise her older sister when she was younger.

Fans often idolise athletes for their skills and dedication.

Some people idolise wealth and fame above all else.

It's not healthy to idolise someone to the point of losing your own identity.

She tends to idolise perfection, which can be exhausting.

Children often idolise their parents as superheroes.

Some fans idolise their favorite band members to an extreme degree.

It's important not to idolise someone without knowing the full picture of who they are.

She doesn't idolise material possessions and values experiences more.

Real-world Examples

He idolised women, who appear as remote superhuman beauties, martyrs even.

Source: Secrets of Masterpieces

Others discover that the industries they idolise trade on workers' passions to keep pay low.

Source: Selected English short passages

He's one of those musicians that other musicians idolise because he's gritty and experimental and hard to pin down.

Source: Financial Times Podcast

Our society idolises the independent individual with consumer power and endless choices. Retirement looks like an ebbing tide withdrawing such freedom from reach.

Source: BBC Listening Collection April 2015

It was singular, when she reflected how her mother had idolised her, that now, disappointed in her, she found her merely a nuisance.

Source: Veil

And of course he had done that first in Argentina, idolised like God himself for salving with his brilliance the loss of the Malvinas and the junta years.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

She had grown up very strangely; first she idolised her father, then she became passionately devoted to her mother, and had grown cold to both of them, especially to her father.

Source: The Night Before (Part 1)

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