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glamourize

glamourize is the alternative form 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 glamourize

third-person singular presentglamourizes
present participleglamourizing
past participleglamourized
pastglamourized

Origin of glamourize

From glamour + -ize.

Questions about glamourize

What is glamourize the alternative form of?
Glamourize is the alternative form of glamorize.

Words near glamourize in the dictionary

  1. glamourised
  2. glamourises
  3. glamourising
  4. glamourization
  5. glamourizations
  6. glamourize
  7. glamourized
  8. glamourizer
  9. glamourizes
  10. glamourizing
  11. glamourless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glamourize (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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