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IDEALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they idealize ... he / she / it idealizes
Past simple: idealized
-ing form: idealizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
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:
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)