mythologize

Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

my=thol=o=gize

WORDNET DICTIONARY

mythologize(v = verb.creation) mythologise - construct a myth; "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons"

is one way to cook up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

mythologize(v = verb.change) mythicise, mythicize, mythologise - make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Antonym: demythologize

Derived forms noun myth₁, noun mythologization₁, noun mythology₂, noun mythology₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

mythologize, v. i. [Cf. F. mythologiser.].

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths. [1913 Webster]
To construct and propagate myths. [1913 Webster]

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