Overromanticize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To romanticize too much. transitive

    "It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty."

Example

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"It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty."

Etymology

From over- + romanticize.

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