pedestalize
pedestalize verb: to place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Verb
pedestalize (third-person singular simple present pedestalizes, present participle pedestalizing, simple past and past participle pedestalized)
- 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.1997, Larry Crabb, Connecting: Healing for Ourselves and Our Relationships: A Radical New Vision, W Publishing Group, →ISBN
- […] the impact of external sources that continue to simultaneously pedestalize and devalue the work of motherhood.2002, Rachel Epstein, “Butches with Babies: Reconfiguring Gender and Motherhood”, in Michelle Gibson, Deborah Meem, editors, Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go, Harrington Park...
Forms of pedestalize
| third-person singular present | pedestalizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | pedestalizing |
| past participle | pedestalized |
| past | pedestalized |
Origin of pedestalize
From pedestal + -ize.
Questions about pedestalize
- What does pedestalize mean?
- Pedestalize means to place something on a pedestal; to hold something in very high esteem, especially to an exaggerated degree.
- What part of speech is pedestalize?
- Pedestalize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of pedestalize?
- The past tense of pedestalize is pedestalized.
Words near pedestalize in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “pedestalize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pedestalize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.