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to treat (someone) as a very important and famous person
- She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
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“Lionize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lionize. Accessed 2 Oct. 2022.
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The first known use of lionize was in 1809
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