English verb: idealize | |||
| 1. | idealize (cognition) consider or render as ideal | ||
| Samples | She idealized her husband after his death. | ||
| Synonyms | idealise | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | consider, reckon, regard, see, view | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deify, glamorize, glamourise, romanticise, romanticize | ||
| 2. | idealize (cognition) form ideals | ||
| Samples | Man has always idealized. | ||
| Synonyms | idealise | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up | ||