1) Admire 2) Adore 3) Adulate 4) Dote on 5) Glorify 6) Idolise 7) Love 8) Revere 1) Admire highly 2) Adore 3) Consider a real star 4) Exalt 5) Glorify 6) Hero-worship 7) Idolise 8) More than adore 9) More than esteem 10) More than look up to 11) Put on a pedestal 12) Revere 13) To adore excessively 14) To revere immoderately 15) Venerate as an idol 16) Worship 
• (v. i.) To practice idolatry. • (v. t.) To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero. • (v. t.) To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.
I'dol·ize intransitive verb To practice idolatry. [ R.] « To idolize after the manner of Egypt.» Fairbairn. I'dol·ize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Idolized ; present participle & verbal noun Idolizing .] 1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To...
[v] - love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess
idolize, idolise (U.K.) 1. To feel great admiration or love for someone or something, often to excess. 2. To love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess. 3. To worship, or venerate, something as an idol.
idolise verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; `Many teenagers idolized the Beatles`