mythologize
verb
my·thol·o·gize
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mythologized;
mythologizing
Definition of mythologize
2
: to build a myth around : mythicize
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Examples of mythologize in a Sentence
a politician who has been mythologized by his supporters
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NFL Films, a catalyst in mythologizing pro football, produces more than 1,000 hours of programming per year. — SI.com, "A History of Football in 100 Objects," 28 Aug. 2019 The Speed-Gun Kid, the 23-year-old nobody who recently signed a contract with the A’s after throwing 96 mph at a ballpark radar-gun booth for fans, tried Monday to de-mythologize his journey. — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, "‘This is real’: How A’s Nathan Patterson went from sales to slinging fastballs," 12 Aug. 2019 Since then, she's been mythologized and picked apart in various works of TV and movies — but Tate's sister, Debra, told TMZ that Quentin Tarantino's movie Once Upon a Time in... — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, "Everything You Need To Know About Sharon Tate's Life — Not Death," 25 July 2019 While female celebrities like Love are criticized for their rebellion, male celebrities, like Cobain for example, are celebrated and mythologized for it. — Lisawhill, Longreads, "Live Through This: Courtney Love at 55," 9 July 2019 Your interview style has been mythologized for your refusal to impose yourself in an exchange. — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Republic, "“Stop Telling Me Your Opinion”: An Exit Interview With C-SPAN’s Founder," 26 June 2019 Ford is never interested merely in the natural world, but in the way humans have documented, exploited, and repurposed it, and how these species have been mythologized, even as most of them have disappeared from the wild. — The New York Review of Books, "Lucy Jakub," 16 Dec. 2018 Other artists who depicted themselves remain young in our collective memory — the exuberance of their early self-mythologizing persists as their defining image. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, "The Rijksmuseum displayed ‘all the Rembrandts,’ and crowds went crazy," 7 June 2019 Forty years later, a backwoods hunter from Kentucky who grew up in a log cabin won the presidency, in part by mythologizing his own origins on the frontier in terms of the natural aristocracy of the common man. — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, "America’s Original Identity Politics," 7 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mythologize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for mythologize
mythologize
verb
English Language Learners Definition of mythologize
: to talk about or describe (someone or something) as a subject that deserves to be told about in a myth or legend : to make (someone or something) seem great or heroic
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