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idealise

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v.1.Same as idealize.
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Verb1.idealise - consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death"
idealize
consider, regard, view, reckon, see - deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
glamorize, glamourise, romanticise, romanticize - interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!"
deify - consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success"
2.idealise - form ideals; "Man has always idealized"
idealize
dream up, think up, hatch, concoct, think of - devise or invent; "He thought up a plan to get rich quickly"; "no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software"
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The wastage of ill- health seemed to idealise the general character of the features, bringing out the unsuspected nobility of some, the strength of others, and in one case re- vealing an essentially comic aspect.
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