MEANING
1. To treat or elevate someone as a god or divine being.
2. To glorify or elevate someone or something to idealized or exalted status.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- apotheosize a ruler
- an apotheosized hero
On the page
The chronicler described the rites used to apotheosize the dead ruler.
The tale apotheosized its hero only after the survivors had given conflicting accounts.
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Word forms
- Base
- apotheosize
- Past tense
- apotheosized
- Past participle
- apotheosized
- Present participle
- apotheosizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- apotheosize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are apotheosizing
- Present perfect
- have/has apotheosized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been apotheosizing
- Past
- apotheosized
- Past continuous
- was/were apotheosizing
- Past perfect
- had apotheosized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been apotheosizing
- Future
- will apotheosize
- Future continuous
- will be apotheosizing
- Future perfect
- will have apotheosized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been apotheosizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: apotheosize; apotheosizes; apotheosized; apotheosized; apotheosizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: apotheosizes.
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