| 单词 | deify |
| 释义 | deify (once / 3779 pages) v When you deify someone, you're paying the highest compliment: you're treating them like a god. Maybe it's because people like to exaggerate, but we deify all the time. We deify the latest sports stars, singers, and actors. When politicians are popular, we deify them. Great writers and artists of the past — like Shakespeare and Picasso — are deified. Anytime we make someone seem so great, so powerful, so wonderful, and so amazing that it can't possibly be true, we're deifying them. It's something we just can't help doing when we respect or love someone a lot. WORD FAMILYdeify: deification, deified, deifies, deifying+/deification: deifications USAGE EXAMPLESIn her autobiography, she speaks of “deifying” Goethe in boarding school; after her father’s early death, she looked to Goethe as a father figure. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) It took a nearly decade-long reality TV show, The Apprentice, that deified Trump’s cruelty, sexism, racism, and narcissism as essential to success and power. The Guardian(Nov 14, 2016) And there are certain figures so deified that criticizing them counts as a mortal sin. Seattle Times(Nov 05, 2016) 1v exalt to the position of a God the people deified their King Hyper exalt raise in rank, character, or status 2v consider as a god or godlike These young men deify financial success Hypo|Hyper apotheose, apotheosise, apotheosize deify or glorify idealise, idealize consider or render as ideal |
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