"romanticize" meaning in English

See romanticize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: romanticize [canonical], romanticizes [third-person, singular], romanticized [past], romanticized [past, participle], romanticizing [present, participle]
Etymology: romantic + -ize Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|romantic|ize}} romantic + -ize Head templates: {{verb|romanticiz|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you romanticize something, you portray it in a very ideal way.
    Sense id: simple-romanticize-en-verb-Cl2kLNWJ
  2. If you romanticize, you act in a romantic way.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ize
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