romanticize
verb
ro·man·ti·cize
rō-ˈman-tə-ˌsīz 
rə-
romanticized; romanticizing
: to make romantic : treat as idealized or heroic
romanticize the past
1
: to hold romantic ideas
2
: to present details, incidents, or people in a romantic way
Examples of romanticize in a Sentence
He has romanticized notions of army life.
a romanticized view of politics
We were romanticizing about the past.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 26 Apr. 2025
The Oath Keepers romanticize the role of armed militias in the founding of America as seen at Lexington and Concord.
—Art Jipson, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
The world has come to romanticize the start-up — the hectic days and long nights of taking an idea, building it into a business and standing it up on its own.
—Evan Clark, WWD, 27 Feb. 2025
Apocalypse Now might fit into that Truffaut problem that sometimes is identified with war films, which is that cinema likes to romanticize and seduce.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Romanticize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/romanticize. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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romanticize
verb
ro·man·ti·cize
rō-ˈmant-ə-ˌsīz
romanticized; romanticizing
1
: to make romantic : show in a romantic way
2
: to have romantic ideas
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