transitive. To make into or treat as a hero; (also) to venerate or deify as a hero (hero, n. 1).
transitive. To make into or treat as a hero; to depict as a hero.
transitive. To treat or honour as a hero.
transitive. To admire (a person one views as a hero) intensely, excessively, or uncritically. Cf. hero worship, n. 2.