verb (v)

• love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol(verb.emotion)

  Example:
  Many teenagers idolized the Beatles.
  

  Synonym:
  hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship
  

  source: wordnet30
• To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.(verb)

  source: webster1913
• To practice idolatry.(verb)

  source: webster1913