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overromanticize

overromanticize verb: to romanticize too much.

Verb

overromanticize (third-person singular simple present overromanticizes, present participle overromanticizing, simple past and past participle overromanticized)

  1. (transitive) To romanticize too much.
    • It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty.

Forms of overromanticize

third-person singular presentoverromanticizes
present participleoverromanticizing
past participleoverromanticized
pastoverromanticized

Origin of overromanticize

From over- + romanticize.

Questions about overromanticize

What does overromanticize mean?
Overromanticize means to romanticize too much.
What part of speech is overromanticize?
Overromanticize is a verb.
What is the past tense of overromanticize?
The past tense of overromanticize is overromanticized.

Words near overromanticize in the dictionary

  1. overrolled
  2. overrolling
  3. overrolls
  4. overromantic
  5. overromantically
  6. overromanticize
  7. overromanticized
  8. overromanticizes
  9. overromanticizing
  10. overroof
  11. overroofed

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