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heroicise

heroicise is the alternative form of heroicize.

Meaning of heroicize

Verb

heroicize (third-person singular simple present heroicizes, present participle heroicizing, simple past and past participle heroicized)

  1. (transitive) To make or depict as heroic.
    • A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.2007, Heinz Eduard Todt, Ernst-Albert Scharffenorth, Glen Harold Stassen, Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer's Theological Ethics in Context, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of heroicise

third-person singular presentheroicises
present participleheroicising
past participleheroicised
pastheroicised

Questions about heroicise

What is heroicise the alternative form of?
Heroicise is the alternative form of heroicize.

Words near heroicise in the dictionary

  1. heroic verse
  2. heroic verses
  3. heroical
  4. heroically
  5. heroicalness
  6. heroicise
  7. heroicised
  8. heroicises
  9. heroicising
  10. heroicity
  11. heroicize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heroicise (page history and authors); heroicize (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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