ro‧man‧ti‧cize (also romanticise British English) /rəʊˈmæntəsaɪz, rəʊˈmæntɪsaɪz, rə- $ roʊ-, rə-/ verb [transitive]
[Word Family: noun: romance, romantic, romanticism; verb: romance, romanticize; adjective: romantic ≠ UNROMANTIC, romanticized; adverb: romantically]
to talk or think about things in a way that makes them seem more romantic or attractive than they really are:
a romanticized image of life during the war

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