What's the difference between lionize and lionized?
Lionize
Definition:
(v. t.) To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.
(v. t.) To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kristof says Allen should be presumed innocent, but then says: When evidence is ambiguous, do we really need to leap to our feet and lionize an alleged molester?
(2) In Caribbean or minority neighborhoods, therefore, marijuana was a "positive vibration" and its distributors were lionized.
(3) (Allen is of course lionized for his films and not for being a molester, as Kristof wink-wink implies.)
(4) The lionized lawyers also made a lot of bank off their clients: Afer paid out over $6m in legal bills for their services .
(5) The process of lionizing Cushing by creating an overdrawn caricature reached its apotheosis in Time magazine in 1939.
(6) He achieved a sort of demigod status in the state, where his 2015 escape was greeted with celebratory gunfire and choruses of narcocorridos (songs lionizing narcos).
Lionized
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lionize
Example Sentences:
(1) Kristof says Allen should be presumed innocent, but then says: When evidence is ambiguous, do we really need to leap to our feet and lionize an alleged molester?
(2) In Caribbean or minority neighborhoods, therefore, marijuana was a "positive vibration" and its distributors were lionized.
(3) (Allen is of course lionized for his films and not for being a molester, as Kristof wink-wink implies.)
(4) The lionized lawyers also made a lot of bank off their clients: Afer paid out over $6m in legal bills for their services .
(5) The process of lionizing Cushing by creating an overdrawn caricature reached its apotheosis in Time magazine in 1939.
(6) He achieved a sort of demigod status in the state, where his 2015 escape was greeted with celebratory gunfire and choruses of narcocorridos (songs lionizing narcos).