hero-worship

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hero worship

Intense or excessive admiration for someone regarded as a hero.

he′ro-wor′ship v.

he′ro-wor′ship·er n.

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hero-worship

Past participle: hero-worshipped
Gerund: hero-worshipping

Imperative
hero-worship
hero-worship

Present
I hero-worship
you hero-worship
he/she/it hero-worships
we hero-worship
you hero-worship
they hero-worship

Preterite
I hero-worshipped
you hero-worshipped
he/she/it hero-worshipped
we hero-worshipped
you hero-worshipped
they hero-worshipped

Present Continuous
I am hero-worshipping
you are hero-worshipping
he/she/it is hero-worshipping
we are hero-worshipping
you are hero-worshipping
they are hero-worshipping

Present Perfect
I have hero-worshipped
you have hero-worshipped
he/she/it has hero-worshipped
we have hero-worshipped
you have hero-worshipped
they have hero-worshipped

Past Continuous
I was hero-worshipping
you were hero-worshipping
he/she/it was hero-worshipping
we were hero-worshipping
you were hero-worshipping
they were hero-worshipping

Past Perfect
I had hero-worshipped
you had hero-worshipped
he/she/it had hero-worshipped
we had hero-worshipped
you had hero-worshipped
they had hero-worshipped

Future
I will hero-worship
you will hero-worship
he/she/it will hero-worship
we will hero-worship
you will hero-worship
they will hero-worship

Future Perfect
I will have hero-worshipped
you will have hero-worshipped
he/she/it will have hero-worshipped
we will have hero-worshipped
you will have hero-worshipped
they will have hero-worshipped

Future Continuous
I will be hero-worshipping
you will be hero-worshipping
he/she/it will be hero-worshipping
we will be hero-worshipping
you will be hero-worshipping
they will be hero-worshipping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been hero-worshipping
you have been hero-worshipping
he/she/it has been hero-worshipping
we have been hero-worshipping
you have been hero-worshipping
they have been hero-worshipping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been hero-worshipping
you will have been hero-worshipping
he/she/it will have been hero-worshipping
we will have been hero-worshipping
you will have been hero-worshipping
they will have been hero-worshipping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been hero-worshipping
you had been hero-worshipping
he/she/it had been hero-worshipping
we had been hero-worshipping
you had been hero-worshipping
they had been hero-worshipping

Conditional
I would hero-worship
you would hero-worship
he/she/it would hero-worship
we would hero-worship
you would hero-worship
they would hero-worship

Past Conditional
I would have hero-worshipped
you would have hero-worshipped
he/she/it would have hero-worshipped
we would have hero-worshipped
you would have hero-worshipped
they would have hero-worshipped

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Verb

hero-worship - love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

idolise, idolize, revere, worship

adore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

drool over, slobber over - envy without restraint

hero-worship

noun admiration, idolization, adulation, adoration, veneration, idealization, putting on a pedestal Their singer inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.

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Translations

hero-worship

vt → anbeten, verehren; popstar etc → schwärmen für

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hero

(ˈhiərəu) – plural ˈheroes: feminine heroine (ˈherouin) – noun

1. a man or boy admired (by many people) for his brave deeds. The boy was regarded as a hero for saving his friend's life.

2. the chief male person in a story, play etc. The hero of this book is a young American boy called Tom Sawyer.

heroic (hiˈrəuik) adjective

1. very brave. heroic deeds.

2. of heroes. heroic tales.

heˈroically adverb

heroism (ˈherəuizm) noun

great bravery. The policeman was given a medal in recognition of his heroism.

ˈhero-worship noun

very great, sometimes too great, admiration for a person.

verb

to show such admiration for (someone). The boy hero-worshipped the footballer.

the heroine (not heroin) of the story.

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Heroes are seldom given to hero-worship, but among those of that young land, young as he was, he was accounted an elder hero.

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Of course I liked Athens best, and yet there was something in the fine behavior of the Spartans in battle, which won a heart formed for hero-worship. I mastered the notion of their communism, and approved of their iron money, with the poverty it obliged them to, yet somehow their cruel treatment of the Helots failed to shock me; perhaps I forgave it to their patriotism, as I had to forgive many ugly facts in the history of the Romans to theirs.

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(for the great men did not sup with the rest, but had each his own allowance in his study or the fifth-form room), cleaning candlesticks and putting in new candles, toasting cheese, bottling beer, and carrying messages about the house; and Tom, in the first blush of his hero-worship, felt it a high privilege to receive orders from and be the bearer of the supper of old Brooke.

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He had endeavored to pay a compliment with a lie, and the prompt repudiation of the lie served only to increase his hero-worship.

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No wonder 94,000 fans, as they have so many times in the past, stood as one to hero-worship their captain with chants of 'Messi, Messi, Messi'.

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But as I got older I dropped the hero-worship thing.

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"Those two teenagers researched and discussed those killers and their interest in them turned to hero-worship. It was against that background that they plotted their own attack upon the school they attended.

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A better grasp of history and a bit less hero-worship might come in handy.

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Every performer must be evaluated on merit as hero-worship doesn't work.

Acting Merit

First, you hero-worship your father, then you hate him and you end up being him.