MYTHOLOGIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mythologize mean? 

• MYTHOLOGIZE (verb)
  The verb MYTHOLOGIZE has 2 senses:

1. construct a myth

2. make into a myth

  Familiarity information: MYTHOLOGIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYTHOLOGIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mythologize    ... he / she / it mythologizes   
Past simple: mythologized   
Past participle: mythologized   
-ing form: mythologizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Construct a myth

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

mythologise; mythologize

Context example:

The poet mythologized that the King had three sons

Hypernyms (to "mythologize" is one way to...):

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture (concoct something artificial or untrue)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into a myth

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mythicise; mythicize; mythologise; mythologize

Context example:

The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66

Hypernyms (to "mythologize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

demythologize (remove the mythical element from (writings))

Derivation:

myth (a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people)

mythologization (the restatement of a message as a myth)

mythology (the study of myths)

mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)