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What does lionize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lionize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To treat (a person) as if they were important, or a celebrity.
  2. (transitive) To visit famous places in order to revere them.
  3. (intransitive) To behave as a lion.
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I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.
He's a virtuoso of the narcocorrido genre, accordion-driven, blood-lusting ballads that lionize the exploits of Mexico's drug cartels.
In spite of serious discrepancies in his attire, however, I saw that Mrs. Effie meant to lionize him tremendously.
Generations of African Americans would lionize Allen as one of their first and greatest leaders.
It's easy to lionize and forget what courage goes into that kind of lionization.
The worst of Gordon was that he made it next to impossible for one to lionize him.

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