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IDEALISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Form ideals

Example:

Man has always idealized

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "idealise" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider or render as ideal

Example:

She idealized her husband after his death

Synonyms:

idealise; idealize

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "idealise" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "idealise"):

glamorize; glamourise; romanticise; romanticize (interpret romantically)

deify (consider as a god or godlike)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

ideal (the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain)

idealisation ((psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad)

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