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    [Noun]  | "ped*es*tal" | \ ˈpe-də-stᵊl \


    1: the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column

    2: the base of an upright structure

    3: base, foundation


    Origin: 1563 ;

     Middle French piedestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie di stallo foot of a stall;

    [Verb]  | "pedestal" 


    1: to place on or furnish with a pedestal


    Origin: 1648 ;

     See: {pedestal:1 };

    [Idiom]  | "knock (someone) off his/her pedestal" 


    1: to defeat (someone that has won a contest or competition especially in sports)

    [Idiom]  | "put/place (someone) on a pedestal" 


    1: to think of someone as a perfect person with no faults : to admire someone greatly

    [Noun]  | "pedestal" 


    1: a bottom part upon which something rests or is supported;


      * e.g., " ... The museum displayed the jewels on a pedestal inside a glass case. "





    2: the position of someone who is treated or regarded as extraordinarily good, successful, etc.;


      * e.g., " ... There's a tendency to put the person you love on a pedestal. "



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    [Phrase]  | "knock (someone) off his/her pedestal" 


    1: to cause (someone) to lose a position of esteem, importance, etc.;


      * e.g., " ... When the scandal broke, the beloved actor was knocked off his pedestal. "





    [Phrase]  | "put/place (someone) on a pedestal" 


    1: to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.;


      * e.g., " ... When you're in love, there's a tendency to put your crush on a pedestal. "





     [ "pedestal" ]

    1: the pedestal is the sex move that when with a girl and youre ready to have sex and you want to try something new. hang her in the air from her ankles upside down while youre on a chair and fuck her while she gives you head

      * e.g.,  ... "I fuckin pedestal'D my bitch last night then i threw her down the stairs." 

     [ "pedestalitis" ]

    1: When you keep on putting girls on the pedestal.

      * e.g.,  ... You keep on idealizing girls - you have pedestalitis. 

     [ "on a pedestal" ]

    1: To greatly value someone or something, esp. a romantic interest, above all others.

      * e.g.,  ... She likes Jon, but she has Chris on a pedestal. Jon doesn't have a chance. 

     [ "pedestalize" ]

    1: when a man takes a woman that he wants and makes her his, then proceeds to hold her in such high and un-realistic esteem that he can no longer have a normal or real relationship with her.

      * e.g.,  ... men commonly pedestalize their wives to try and boost their egos, show off and re-live their mother son relationships  


     [ "pedestalize" ]

    2: putting her on a pedestal.

     [ "Pedestal" ]

    1: What you're putting somebody on when you tell them they're more righteous, or the greatest person or greatest at anything. It might give somebody a buzz to know they're on a pedestal, but does it help them not to hear what they need to? There's people who overdo the pedestal shit.

      * e.g.,  ... You put her on such a high pedestal all males are expected to believe females are more righteous than males. You put him on such a high pedestal females think he's got a round table full of knights in shining armor and really the guys an asshole. 

     [ "Pedestal" ]

    1: Pedestal is a quarterly BDSM femdom (female domination) club in London, UK. It is a moveable club and has been staged at several different sites. People travel from all over the UK to visit this club. It has become so closely entwined with UK BDSM female domination, that is almost a by-word for femdom.

      * e.g.,  ... George sat there, half naked and with a ballgag in his mouth looking like some pedestal slave 

     [ "Pedest" ]

    1: To walk; move along on foot

      * e.g.,  ... I am a pedestrian. I pedest. 

     [ "On a pedestal" ]

    1: To value something greatly, yet, unintentionally, you completely stay away from it

      * e.g.,  ... You're putting the pussy on a pedestal, man 

     [ "Pedesting" ]

    1: the act of being a pedestrian, use of one's feet to advance; synonym for walk, derivative of pedestrian

      * e.g.,  ... She is pedesting across this street. 

     [ "Pedestally" ]

    1: (V) The act of behaving as if one is on a pedestal.

      * e.g.,  ... Henry was being pedestally as he talked about his vast knowledge of the world. 

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