[
US
/aɪˈdiˌɫaɪz/
]
VERB
-
consider or render as ideal
She idealized her husband after his death -
form ideals
Man has always idealized
How To Use idealize In A Sentence
- The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized -- why don't you call the figures so? The Two Paths
- She was idealized as a martyr's daughter and a symbol of Palestine.
- Here your backdrop is an ultimately idyllic secondary world reconstructed from our myth, folklore and fable (childhood and the past idealised). Of Genres and Sub-Genres
- In taking the nationalistic, idealized and ancient form of the epic and combining it with a narrative of mercantile discovery, Camões embodies early modern epistemological anxiety.
- Moral values at the national level are idealized family values projected onto the nation.
- Girls and young women may experience lowered body satisfaction and self-esteem after viewing idealised images of thinness in magazines, soap operas and music videos.
- It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
- In the solvent-permeable and ion- penetrable porous surface layer of the particle, idealized hydrodynamic frictional segments with fixed charges are assumed to distribute at a uniform density.
- Conscious through close observation of nature of changing patterns in the landscape, especially at sunrise and sunset, he found a beauty that was atmospheric and objectively perceived as well as poetic and idealized.
- They have thought constantly about each other, but will the real person live up to the idealized image that was burnished into their minds for ten years?