MYTHOLOGISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mythologise mean? 

• MYTHOLOGISE (verb)
  The verb MYTHOLOGISE has 2 senses:

1. construct a myth

2. make into a myth

  Familiarity information: MYTHOLOGISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYTHOLOGISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mythologise    ... he / she / it mythologises   
Past simple: mythologised   
Past participle: mythologised   
-ing form: mythologising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Construct a myth

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

mythologise; mythologize

Context example:

The poet mythologized that the King had three sons

Hypernyms (to "mythologise" is one way to...):

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture (concoct something artificial or untrue)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into a myth

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

mythicise; mythicize; mythologise; mythologize

Context example:

The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66

Hypernyms (to "mythologise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

mythologisation (the restatement of a message as a myth)