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heroicized

heroicized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about heroicized

What is heroicized the simple past and past participle of?
Heroicized is the simple past and past participle of heroicize.

Words near heroicized in the dictionary

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

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