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Lionize 1100 Words You Need

Lionize 1100 Words You Need

/ˈlaɪ.ə.naɪz/ (verb)

to make someone so popular and famous, to treat someone with so much respect, make celebrity of someone, glorify, idolize, praise, celebrate, acclaim, applaud, extol, put on a pedestal, worship, admire, elevate, regard highly, look up to, adulate:

The lieutenant made it clear to his soldiers that he didn’t like to be lionized or flattered at all. 

Antonyms

censure

Parts of Speech

  • Noun: lionization
  • Noun: lionizer

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