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heroicizing

heroicizing is the present participle and gerund 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 heroicizing

What is heroicizing the present participle and gerund of?
Heroicizing is the present participle and gerund of heroicize.

Words near heroicizing in the dictionary

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

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