1
as in to adore
to love or admire too much
materialistic people who deify money
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as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
some ancient pagans deified such objects of nature as trees and rivers
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as in to elevate
to assign a high status or value to
the sense of entitlement felt by athletes who have been deified all their lives
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Recent Examples of deify
Law goes balls out (literally) in crafting the narcissistic megalomaniac that is Ritter, a man who deifies Nietzsche.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
Trump is deified in Butler, a town where longtime auto dealership owner Mike Kelly (who married into the T.W. Phillips oil and gas family fortune) loudly serves as a controversial U.S. representative.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
The solution to this question can be reached not by deifying the nation, but on the contrary by completely liberating productive forces from the fetters imposed upon them by the national state.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Blockchain transactions are deified because of their completely private nature.
—Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2024
Trump is deified in Butler, a town where longtime auto dealership owner Mike Kelly (who married into the T.W. Phillips oil and gas family fortune) loudly serves as a controversial U.S. representative.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024
The solution to this question can be reached not by deifying the nation, but on the contrary by completely liberating productive forces from the fetters imposed upon them by the national state.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Blockchain transactions are deified because of their completely private nature.
—Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deify
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An old pal of mine — a Dodgers fanatic who adores Monfort the way Bugs Bunny adored Elmer Fudd — likes to joke that there are only two types of Rockies fans left at Coors Field by the All-Star break: Barely alive or barely sober.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2025
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Leaving behind Bath's busy streets, the tour weaves through Hampshire's rolling hills, capturing the quiet elegance Austen adored.—
Jordi Lippe-McGraw,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Also, a subculture referred to as Saints Culture, which venerates mass killers as almost superhuman figures, frames high-casualty attacks as the ultimate and only legacy worth emulating.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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Aquinas adds – and to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of his reflections on relics – that venerating a relic is also a way of looking forward to the future resurrection of the body.—
Therese Cory,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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Also known as pistachio meal, this fine green powder made with pistachio nuts is an instant way to elevate everything, especially baked goods.—
Erin Hooker,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Mar. 2025
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There is a belief he could be elevated into Emery’s squad before long, having made his senior debut off the bench in September’s Carabao Cup game away to Wycombe Wanderers of League One and joined the first team on that recent Dubai training trip.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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The cluster of musicians were joined onstage by a soulful choir wearing black praise and worship robes.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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For centuries, new technologies have changed the ways people worship, from the radio in the 1920s to television sets in the 1950s and the internet in the 1990s.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
The Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2025
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Even without other big hits, the group remains revered in certain punk-rock circles.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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Olive trees have long been revered not only for their fruit and oil but also for the resilience encoded in their DNA.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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In the state legislature, Fine promoted bills on school choice, immigration, combating antisemitism and other issues.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2025
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The acid works by dissolving the bonds between dead skin cells on the surface, which in turns promotes cell turnover.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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However, Brecher writes, not everyone liked these ideas.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Mar. 2025
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Finn likes to sit with Amato, who works from home – on his Pottery Barn kids sofa, which is personalized with his name.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA TODAY,
23 Mar. 2025
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In exalting above all other concerns his personal conception of the institutional integrity of the Supreme Court, and by extension the entire judiciary, Roberts has ironically done more than anyone else to delegitimize the courts.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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The sound is so present that even the smallest thing is exalted.—
Carlos Aguilar,
IndieWire,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Deify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deify. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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