1. to treat or regard someone as a hero; to make someone into a hero
Usage: past tense and past participle of ‘heroize’

Examples

• The soldiers were heroized by the media after their brave rescue mission.
• She felt uncomfortable being heroized for simply doing her job.
• The biography heroized the politician while ignoring his flaws.
• Local newspapers heroized the firefighters who saved the family.
• He was heroized by his community for his charitable work.
• The documentary heroized the civil rights activists of the 1960s.