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What does mythologize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mythologize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. [from 17th c.]
  2. (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology. [from 17th c.]
  3. (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. [from 19th c.]
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He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.
The result is like a sci-fi take on Albert Bierstadt, the German-American artist whose heavenly paintings of Yosemite helped mythologize the American West.
The growth of Cabela's reflects Americans' odd relationship with the outdoors: we mythologize it even as we pave it over.
I always wanted to mythologize Winnipeg as much as possible, just the way Hollywood is great at mythologizing the most far-flung corners of its own country.
A brilliant horror show about various female perversions, including the need to mythologize and package femaleness.
The book is more intrigued by Rimbaud's glancing interactions with people too ordinary, too conspicuously mortal, to mythologize.

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