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    IDEALIZE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they idealize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it idealizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: idealized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: idealized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: idealizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Form idealsplay

    Example:

    Man has always idealized

    Synonyms:

    idealise; idealize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

    Hypernyms (to "idealize" 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 idealplay

    Example:

    She idealized her husband after his death

    Synonyms:

    idealise; idealize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

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

    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)

    idealization (a portrayal of something as ideal)

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