etherealize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make or regard as being ethereal
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to add ether to or make into ether or something resembling ether
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Since not even camera magic can etherealize perdurable Angel MacDonald, this is one dream to stump Freud�especially when DreamerEddy takes his Angel for a dream honeymoon in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was well aware of the proportions of things; he had no despair of the Idea, nor would he despair should the Idea etherealize and fly away.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
He was not enough of an idealist to etherealize her.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
She would seek to improve on Nature's handiwork; she would etherealize it, make it so dainty that it would become poetry instead of the beautiful plain language the universal mother sometimes speaks.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
We shall not have to wait long for the answer to a question which has stirred the heart of mankind to its foundations—can Women etherealize society?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
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