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Lionize   /lˈaɪənˌaɪz/   Listen
Lionize

verb
(past & past part. lionized, pres. part. lionizing)
1.
Assign great social importance to.  Synonyms: celebrate, lionise.  "The tenor was lionized in Vienna"






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"Lionize" Quotes from Famous Books



... newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip &c (news) 532; rubberneck; intellectual; seeker [inquirer after religious knowledge], seeker after truth. V. be curious &c adj.; take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck [U.S.]. Adj. curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring &c 461; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory^; curious as a cat; agape &c (expectant) 507. Phr. what's the matter? what next? consumed with curiosity; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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