mythicize

(-ə sīz′)

transitive verb mythicized, mythicizing

to make into, or explain as, a myth

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See mythicize in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb myth·i·cized, myth·i·ciz·ing, myth·i·ciz·es
  1. To turn (a person or an event) into myth: mythicizing the American trucker.
  2. To interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology.
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