mythologize

American  

[mi-thol-uh-jahyz] / mɪˈθɒl əˌdʒaɪz /

especially British, mythologise

verb (used without object)

mythologized, mythologizing

1. to classify, explain, or write about myths.

2. to construct or narrate myths.

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verb (used with object)

mythologized, mythologizing

1. to make into or explain as a myth; make mythical.

mythologize British  

/ mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz /

verb

1. to tell, study, or explain (myths)

2. (intr) to create or make up myths

3. (tr) to convert into a myth

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Other Word Forms

• mythologer noun
• mythologization noun
• mythologizer noun

Etymology

Origin of mythologize

1595–1605; mytholog(y) + -ize; compare French mythologiser

Example Sentences

Canada provides an instructional model for democratic multiculturalism beyond mythologized heritage.

From Salon

Nabokov set an impossible mark for himself and hit it, the literary equivalent of Babe Ruth’s called shot, and his book deserves to be mythologized in similar fashion.

From Salon

Although they had already sought to mythologize in the past the supposedly noble sacrifice of Nazi activists killed in street fighting, Wessel was the first to be elevated to supreme martyr status.

From Salon

If that message is tough for some people to absorb, consider the pie mythologizing that’s been baked into our national story.

From Salon

And, like the house it hopes to capture and mythologize in equal measure, the pop-up book is a celebration of Willis’ own “more is more” sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times