verb
- to treat or regard someone as a hero; to make someone into a hero
Usage: present participle of heroize
Examples
- The media was heroizing the young firefighter who saved the family.
- Stop heroizing him – he made some serious mistakes too.
- The documentary avoided heroizing any single individual.
- She felt uncomfortable with people heroizing her actions.
- The biography succeeded in humanizing rather than heroizing its subject.
- Critics accused the film of heroizing a controversial historical figure.