| Meaning | Consider as a god or godlike. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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| Example | "These young men deify financial success" |
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| Narrower | apotheosize, apotheosise, apotheose | deify or glorify |
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| Broader | idealize, idealise | Consider or render as ideal |
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| Spanish | deificar, endiosar |
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| Catalan | deïficar |
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| Nouns | deification | the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) |
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| deification | an embodiment of the qualities of a god |
| deification | the condition of being treated like a god |
| deity | any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force |
