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).

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