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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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Other Word Forms

demythicization noun
demythicize verb (used with object)
mythicist noun
mythicization noun
mythicizer noun

Etymology

Origin of mythicize

1830–40; mythic ( def. ) + -ize

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Project Gutenberg

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