Heroicize

Quick meaning: Heroicize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make or depict as heroic.

Meaning

(transitive) To make or depict as heroic.

Example Sentences

A strong tendency to heroicize death prevailed in the nihilism of the Third Reich.

Societies heroicize soldiers during war to encourage young men to enlist and their families to support the war effort.

Professors of post-coloniality have a curious need to heroicize (and self-heroicize) and these Australians are no exception.

Word Forms

• heroicizes
• heroicizing
• heroicized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heroicise, heroize, heroise, heraldize, titanize, legendize.

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