Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make a hero of; treat as a hero.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make or represent as heroic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make someone into a
hero . - verb To treat someone as if they were a hero.
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Examples
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Puttnam was a magnet for the press, which, in the go-go business climate of those years, was increasingly eager to heroize executives and cover the business end of the movies.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Penn wanted to heroize Bonnie and Clyde, killers yes, but more sinned against than sinning.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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There are always patsies and enablers who surround the worst leaders, who flatter them with euphemisms and heroize them with outright lies.
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Besides, much of what we think about historic figures we know to be real is mythic anyway, created by the historians who heroize or villainize them.
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Besides, much of what we think about historic figures we know to be real is mythic anyway, created by the historians who heroize or villainize them.
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LOEWEN: The textbooks, again, want to heroize everybody, and the number one hero becomes the federal government.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 1995
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The women want to heroize you, but I had to see you first, to clear up a few things.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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Canada was beginning to understand, to heroize and to censure Sam
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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Edel shoots lucidly and swiftly, somewhat in the manner of Costa-Gavras, but he doesn't heroize anybody.
Movie City News 2010
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The resolution is aimed at condemning attempts to heroize the Nazi movement and former Waffen SS members and desecrate monuments to the fighters against Nazism.
RIA Novosti 2009
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