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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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That is the way with the brightest stars: as much by accident as by design, they pull toward them the scripts and directors most likely to enrich, even to mythologize, our sense of who they are.
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 book is more intrigued by Rimbaud's glancing interactions with people too ordinary, too conspicuously mortal, to mythologize.
He began to mythologize about it on account of the grand elements of welfare, risk, and skill which were in it.
No progress of science can wholly eradicate this tendency to mythologize.
Those who worship Joy Division may bridle at Corbijn's film for its reluctance to mythologize their hero.

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