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To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree..
She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.
[…] the impact of external sources that continue to simultaneously pedestalize and devalue the work of motherhood.
I was made aware of my own tendency to pedestalize while talking with Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, during a Unity Forum in Fort Lauderdale.
Use pedestalize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pedestalize means To place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She wanted to neither disparage her father nor pedestalize him.
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