verb
- to treat or interpret as a myth; to create myths about something or someone
Usage: present participle of mythologize
Examples
- The documentary avoided mythologizing the historical figure.
- Critics accused the film of mythologizing the war.
- She was mythologizing her childhood memories.
- The media has been mythologizing the celebrity’s rise to fame.
- Historians warn against mythologizing past events.
- The author is mythologizing the old West in his novels.