Heroicize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make or depict as heroic. transitive

    "A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich."

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"A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich."

Etymology

From heroic + -ize.

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