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glamourise

glamourise is the alternative spelling of glamorize.

Meaning of glamorize

Verb

glamorize (third-person singular simple present glamorizes, present participle glamorizing, simple past and past participle glamorized)

  1. (transitive) To make or give the appearance of being glamorous.
  2. (transitive) To glorify; to romanticize.
    • Some movies glamorize criminal activity by making criminals seem cool.

Forms of glamourise

third-person singular presentglamourises
present participleglamourising
past participleglamourised
pastglamourised
alternative formglamorise

Origin of glamourise

From glamour + -ise.

Words formed from glamourise

Questions about glamourise

What is glamourise the alternative spelling of?
Glamourise is the alternative spelling of glamorize.

Words near glamourise in the dictionary

  1. glamourful
  2. glamourie
  3. glamouring
  4. glamourisation
  5. glamourisations
  6. glamourise
  7. glamourised
  8. glamourises
  9. glamourising
  10. glamourization
  11. glamourizations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glamourise (page history and authors); glamorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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