deify
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they deify | |
| he / she / it deifies | |
| past simple deified | |
| past participle deified | |
| -ing form deifying |
- deify somebody
to treat somebody as a god 把（某人）奉若神明；把（某人）尊为神；崇拜 Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘make godlike in character’): from Old French deifier, from ecclesiastical Latin deificare, from deus ‘god’.