Meanings
present singular third person deifies · participle present deifying · participle past deified · past deified
- transitiveTo make into a god.
Near-synonyms: demideify, mythologize
Synonyms: divinize, apotheosize, euhemerize, demideify, mythologize · Antonyms: undeify, disdeify, ungod, euhemerize
- transitiveTo regard as being like a deity; to treat as worthy of worship; to exalt.
“Those people who have sought to deify our wilderness … those days are over. We are not going to sit around and read poetry to rare lizards, whilst our current account deficit goes down the gurgler,” Jones said.
2025 May 26, Eva Corlett, quoting Shane Jones, “New Zealand will not be ‘guilt-tripped’ over environment, resources minister says”, in The Guardian, →ISSNSynonyms: divinize, apotheosize, exalt, idealize
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make into a god.
verbTo regard as being like a deity; to treat as worthy of worship; to exalt.
Origin
Translations
Afrikaans vergoddelik
- vergoddelikto make into a god
Ancient Greek ἀποθεόω
- ἀποθεόω (apotheóō)to make into a god
Arabic أَلَّهَ
- أَلَّهَ (ʔallaha)to make into a god
Basque jainkotu
- jainkotuto make into a god
Bulgarian обожествя́вам, боготворя́
- обожествя́вам (obožestvjávam)to make into a god
- боготворя́ (bogotvorjá)to make into a god
Catalan deïficar, divinitzar
- deïficarto make into a god
- divinitzarto make into a god
Czech zbožňovat
- zbožňovatto make into a god
Danish guddommeliggøre, forgude
- guddommeliggøreto make into a god
- forgudeto make into a god
Dutch vergoddelijken
- vergoddelijkento make into a god
Esperanto diigi
- diigito make into a god
Estonian jumaldama, jumalustama
- jumaldamato make into a god
- jumalustamato make into a god
Finnish jumaloida, palvoa
- jumaloidato make into a god
- palvoato make into a god
French déifier
- déifierto make into a god
German als Gott verehren, vergöttern
- als Gott verehrento make into a god
- vergötternto make into a god
Greek θεοποιώ
- θεοποιώ (theopoió)to make into a god
Hawaiian akua
- akuato make into a god
Hindi पूजा करना
- पूजा करना (pūjā karnā)to make into a god
Hungarian istenít
- istenítto make into a god
Icelandic guðdóma
- guðdómato make into a god
Indonesian mendewakan, mempertuhankan
- mendewakanto make into a god
- mempertuhankanto make into a god
- mempertuhanto make into a god
Italian deificare, venerare
- deificareto make into a god
- venerareto make into a god
- divinizzareto make into a god
Korean 신으로 섬기다, 신성해지다
- 신으로 섬기다 (sineuro seomgida)to make into a god
- 신성해지다 (sinseonghaejida)to make into a god
Latin deificō
- deificōto make into a god
Latvian dievišķot, pielūgt
- dievišķotto make into a god
- pielūgtto make into a god
Lithuanian dievinti
- dievintito make into a god
Malay mendewa-dewakan, mendewakan
- mendewa-dewakanto make into a god
- mendewakanto make into a god
Māori atua
- atuato make into a god
Norwegian guddommeliggjøre
- guddommeliggjøreto make into a god
Polish ubóstwiać, deifikować
- ubóstwiaćto make into a god
- deifikowaćto make into a god
Portuguese deificar, endeusar
- deificarto make into a god
- endeusarto make into a god
- divinizarto make into a god
Punjabi ਦੇਵਤਾ
- ਦੇਵਤਾ (devtā)to make into a god
Russian обожествля́ть, боготвори́ть
- обожествля́ть (obožestvljátʹ)to make into a god
- боготвори́ть (bogotvorítʹ)to make into a god
Slovak zbožňovať, zbožštiť
- zbožňovaťto make into a god
- zbožštiťto make into a god
Spanish deificar, endiosar
- deificarto make into a god
- endiosarto make into a god
Swahili mungu
- munguto make into a god
Swedish avguda, förguda
- avgudato make into a god
- förgudato make into a god
Tagalog bathalain, diyusin
- bathalainto make into a god
- diyusinto make into a god
- pumoonto make into a god
- pooninto make into a god
- dumyosto make into a god
Tamil தெய்வமாக்கு
- தெய்வமாக்கு (teyvamākku)to make into a god
Thai บูชาอย่างพระเจ้า, ยกขึ้นเป็นพระเจ้า
- บูชาอย่างพระเจ้าto make into a god
- ยกขึ้นเป็นพระเจ้าto make into a god
- ถือเป็นพระเจ้าto make into a god
Turkish tanrılaştırmak, ilahlaştırmak
- tanrılaştırmakto make into a god
- ilahlaştırmakto make into a god
Ukrainian боготворити
- боготворити (bohotvoryty)to make into a god
Vietnamese phong thần, sùng bái như thần
- phong thầnto make into a god
- sùng bái như thầnto make into a god
- tôn làm thầnto make into a god
Welsh dwyfoli, ddwyfoli
- dwyfolito make into a god
- ddwyfolito make into a god
- nwyfolito make into a god
Zulu unkulunkulu
- unkulunkuluto make into a god
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Cite this entry
deify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deify
“deify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deify. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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