idealize
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Etymology edit
From ideal + -ize.[1] Compare French idéaliser.
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idealize (third-person singular simple present idealizes, present participle idealizing, simple past and past participle idealized)
- (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
- (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
- (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.
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Translations edit
transitive: to regard something as ideal
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intransitive: to conceive or form an ideal
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References edit
- ^ “idealize, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading edit
- “idealize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “idealize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Galician edit
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idealize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of idealizar:
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idealize
- inflection of idealizar: