idealize
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glamorize (also glamourize), glamour (up), glorify, romanticize
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Resist the common tendency to idealize the relationship... — Willa Bennett, Seventeen, "How Do You Get Over Your Ex?," 8 Sep. 2017 Schumer plays Renee, a woman who hits her head and wakes up with the confidence of a supermodel, and Ratajkowski is Mallory, a model Renee idealizes for her looks. — Janet Mock, Marie Claire, "Emily Ratajkowski Is Unapologetically Herself," 10 May 2018 The newer seeds that plant breeders produce, whether open-pollinated or hybrid, are manipulated to thrive, and aren’t idealized in the same way, except by the breeders. — Tejal Rao, New York Times, "Seeds Only a Plant Breeder Could Love, Until Now," 27 Feb. 2018 Challenges are far too great to adequately mobilize another farming generation and draw people to the field, which is also ironic when farms are idealized as bucolic and peaceful. — Adrian White, Good Housekeeping, "Farm Life Isn't Nearly As Idyllic As It Looks On Instagram—But I Still Wouldn’t Trade It For Anything," 11 Jan. 2018 Both idealized by Lawson (in their physical beauty) and pathologized by the culture (as symbols of violence or fear), they are largely liberated from the kinds of domestic circumstance and context in which Lawson tends to frame her women. — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, "Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory," 8 Jan. 2018 The article avoids idealizing the victim, who, like the others, had been using drugs before the murder. — USA TODAY, "Arizona Republic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel lead 2017 USA TODAY Network journalism awards," 7 Mar. 2018 One explanation suggested by his work is that long-distance daters tend to idealize their relationships. — Dale Markowitz, The Atlantic, "What It’s Like to Finally Meet After Dating Online for Months," 14 Feb. 2018 No team idealized Philadelphia’s view of itself as the Eagles did — the gritty, blue-collar, Rocky-esque underdog, good but not quite good enough. — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, "Suddenly, Philadelphia Has a Major Identity Crisis," 4 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'idealize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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idealize
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English Language Learners Definition of idealize
: to think of or represent (someone or something) as being perfect
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