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heroicize

heroicize verb: to make or depict as heroic.

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
    • Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception.2007, Richard Serrano, Against the Postcolonial, →ISBN

Forms of heroicize

third-person singular presentheroicizes
present participleheroicizing
past participleheroicized
pastheroicized

Origin of heroicize

From heroic + -ize.

Questions about heroicize

What does heroicize mean?
Heroicize means to make or depict as heroic.
What part of speech is heroicize?
Heroicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of heroicize?
The past tense of heroicize is heroicized.

Words near heroicize in the dictionary

  1. heroicise
  2. heroicised
  3. heroicises
  4. heroicising
  5. heroicity
  6. heroicize
  7. heroicized
  8. heroicizes
  9. heroicizing
  10. heroick
  11. heroicke

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