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v. - Assign great social importance to.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Verb (used with object) : to lionize the visiting poet
  • You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise.
  • They move to the right because they find that when they do so the newspaper proprietors and government officials and foundations send them invitations and lionise them.
  • For the past four years, one of our goals has been to lionise the sources who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure, and without whose efforts,...
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