hero-worship

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Verb

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hero-worship (third-person singular simple present hero-worships, present participle hero-worshipping, simple past and past participle hero-worshipped)

  1. To treat as a hero
    • April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair[1]:
      William hero-worshipped Carling and met him several times with Diana. When Carling visited Kensington Palace for a romantic rendezvous, he gave both the boys a rugby shirt.
      adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books