mythicize

American

[mith-uh-sahyz] / ˈmɪθ əˌsaɪz /

especially British, mythicise

verb (used with object)

mythicized, mythicizing

to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.

mythicize British

/ ˈmɪθɪˌsaɪz /

verb

(tr) to make into or treat as a myth

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Etymology

Origin of mythicize

1830–40; mythic ( def. ) + -ize

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mythicize mythicized

As the writer James Surowiecki put it, NFL Films “tried to simultaneously convey the gritty reality of the game and mythicize it in a Homeric fashion.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2023

Dubbed the “Devil Winds” in legend and literature, the Santa Ana is an old fixture of this trope, mythicized as a force of insanity, murder, and suicide.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2017

Emulating their mythicized forebears, Americans have turned their country into an arsenal.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot

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