( hero-worships, hero-worshipping, hero-worshipped)
Note: The noun is also spelled 'hero worship'.
1.
Hero-worship is a very great admiration of someone and a belief that they are special or perfect.
Singer Brett Anderson inspires old-fashioned hero-worship.
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2.
If you hero-worship someone, you admire them a great deal and think they are special or perfect.
He was amused by the way younger actors started to hero-worship and copy him.
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