Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol:
— Many teenagers idolized the Beatles.

synonyms: hero-worship, idolise, revere, worship.

Roget 897: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love with etc. adj.; have a love etc. n.. for, entertain a love etc. n.. for, harbor cherish a love etc. n.. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.    burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument [Fr.]; dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored etc. adj.; fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire etc. 865.    excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.    get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable [Fr.], set one's cap at, flirt.    ... show more

Roget 988: be impious etc. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear etc. (malediction) 908; commit sacrilege.    snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.    ... show more