say it: AHY-duh-lahyz
idolize is a verb meaning "love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol". It carries one recorded sense.
love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
“Many teenagers idolized the Beatles”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for idolize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.