Idolize and Like

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Idolize

Idolize verb - To love or admire too much.
Usage example: she blindly idolized her older sister, refusing to acknowledge her considerable faults
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Like and idolize are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead a verb "Idolize".
Nearby Words: idol, idolised, idolizing, idolising

Like

Like verb - To take pleasure in.
Usage example: an adventuresome young woman who likes skydiving
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Idolize and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Idolize" instead a verb "Like".
Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

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boy idolize boy like boy
idea idolize idea like idea
characters idolize characters like characters
father idolize father like father
Other words: kids, guys, whom.

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  • Attractiveness Isolation Pyrrha Nikos- a star athlete and Significant Green-Eyed Redhead- is in love with Jaune Arc because he doesn't idolize her like the other students do.
    Source: Attractiveness Isolation
  • Visual Novel / Princess Evangile Hero-Worshipper: Konomi seems like a Schoolgirl Lesbian at first, but she’s actually attracted to Masaya and mostly just wants to protect and idolize Ritsuko.
    Source: Visual Novel / Princess Evangile
  • Webcomic / Go Get a Roomie! That in turn explains how, per this trope, she became attracted to a hikikomori type like Lillian, who unlike nearly everybody else, does not idolize or put Roomie on any sort of pedestal, instead seeing her as a(n often rather irritating) human being.
    Source: Webcomic / Go Get a Roomie!
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