Meaning & use
mythologize
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To turn a person, event, or place into a myth or legend by exaggerating, romanticizing, or fictionalizing it.
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Popular culture has mythologized the outlaw into a folk hero far removed from the historical record.
Biographers are sometimes tempted to mythologize their subjects rather than portray them honestly.
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Built from "myth" plus the verb-forming suffix "-ize," the word is often used critically to suggest that the truth has been distorted or embellished.
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