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glamorize

or ·dzܰ·

[ glam-uh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

glamorized, glamorizing.
  1. to make glamorous.
  2. to glorify or romanticize:

    an adventure film that tended to glamorize war.



glamorize

/ ˈɡæəˌɪ /

verb

  1. tr to cause to be or seem glamorous; romanticize or beautify
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌǰˈپDz, noun
  • ˈǰˌ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • o··tDz noun
  • o·e noun
  • v·o· verb (used with object) overglamorized overglamorizing
  • v·oܰ· verb (used with object) overglamourized overglamourizing
  • ܲ·o· adjective
  • ܲ·oܰ· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glamorize1

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40; glamor ( def ) + -ize
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Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.

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The case stems from a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles alleging that the unit was run by a “SWAT Mafia” of influential veteran cops who “glamorize the use of lethal force.”

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Our blood-engorged media — video games, music, the big and small screens — don’t just normalize violence but glamorize and celebrate it.

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“Guns were so glamorized. It was probably my biggest obsession ... dreaming about guns, drawing pictures of them,” he says.

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But Bernstein’s rise, recently glamorized in the Oscar-nominated “Maestro,” showed that conductors from the United States could compete with their finest counterparts across the Atlantic.

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