idealize
verb (used with object)
have idealized
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present perfectof idealize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His gouache paintings have idealized rooms by Billy Baldwin, Mario Buatta, Tony Duquette and David Hicks, among other designers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2010
Disney's America will idealize and sentimentalize history the way Disney's movies have idealized and sentimentalized nature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had he been a Pantheist, as Orpheus was, it is probable he would have idealized these things and created Greek lines.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
I am conscious that many readers may think that I have idealized the Indian.
From Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles Alexander Eastman
