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fet·ish·ize  (ft-shz)
tr.v. fet·ish·ized, fet·ish·iz·ing, fet·ish·iz·es
To make a fetish of: "The American public schools . . . have in the space of a few years gone from neglecting computers to fetishizing them" James Traub.
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Verb1.fetishize - make a fetish of
adore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
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Incest provided Nugent with a useful scenario for exploring the equally prohibitive terrains he knew intimately--same-sex desire and fetishized whiteness.
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Both a fetishizing and a fetishized object, the brush symbolizes Noh's self-imposed prohibition of, as well as longing for, the act of painting.
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Relatively free elections in Iraq are undoubtedly a good thing, but there remains an inconvenient fact, a fact that I fear will be left out of our history text-books but remembered, repeated and fetishized by America's enemies:
An inconvenient fact by Carsen, Dan / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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