verb
- treating someone as a celebrity or hero; giving someone excessive attention and admiration
Usage: present participle of ‘lionize’
Examples
- The media was lionizing the young athlete after her Olympic victory.
- He grew uncomfortable with everyone lionizing him for his charitable work.
- The press has been lionizing the new CEO since the company’s turnaround.
- She warned against lionizing political figures without examining their policies.
- The biography avoided lionizing its subject, presenting a balanced portrait instead.
- Fans were lionizing the director at the film festival.