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Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel

Meaning of "mythologize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MYTHOLOGIZE

mythologize  [mɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MYTHOLOGIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mythologize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mythologize in English.

WHAT DOES MYTHOLOGIZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mythologize in the English dictionary

The first definition of mythologize in the dictionary is to tell, study, or explain. Other definition of mythologize is to create or make up myths. Mythologize is also to convert into a myth.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MYTHOLOGIZE

PRESENT

Present
I mythologize
you mythologize
he/she/it mythologizes
we mythologize
you mythologize
they mythologize
Present continuous
I am mythologizing
you are mythologizing
he/she/it is mythologizing
we are mythologizing
you are mythologizing
they are mythologizing
Present perfect
I have mythologized
you have mythologized
he/she/it has mythologized
we have mythologized
you have mythologized
they have mythologized
Present perfect continuous
I have been mythologizing
you have been mythologizing
he/she/it has been mythologizing
we have been mythologizing
you have been mythologizing
they have been mythologizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mythologized
you mythologized
he/she/it mythologized
we mythologized
you mythologized
they mythologized
Past continuous
I was mythologizing
you were mythologizing
he/she/it was mythologizing
we were mythologizing
you were mythologizing
they were mythologizing
Past perfect
I had mythologized
you had mythologized
he/she/it had mythologized
we had mythologized
you had mythologized
they had mythologized
Past perfect continuous
I had been mythologizing
you had been mythologizing
he/she/it had been mythologizing
we had been mythologizing
you had been mythologizing
they had been mythologizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mythologize
you will mythologize
he/she/it will mythologize
we will mythologize
you will mythologize
they will mythologize
Future continuous
I will be mythologizing
you will be mythologizing
he/she/it will be mythologizing
we will be mythologizing
you will be mythologizing
they will be mythologizing
Future perfect
I will have mythologized
you will have mythologized
he/she/it will have mythologized
we will have mythologized
you will have mythologized
they will have mythologized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mythologizing
you will have been mythologizing
he/she/it will have been mythologizing
we will have been mythologizing
you will have been mythologizing
they will have been mythologizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mythologize
you would mythologize
he/she/it would mythologize
we would mythologize
you would mythologize
they would mythologize
Conditional continuous
I would be mythologizing
you would be mythologizing
he/she/it would be mythologizing
we would be mythologizing
you would be mythologizing
they would be mythologizing
Conditional perfect
I would have mythologize
you would have mythologize
he/she/it would have mythologize
we would have mythologize
you would have mythologize
they would have mythologize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mythologizing
you would have been mythologizing
he/she/it would have been mythologizing
we would have been mythologizing
you would have been mythologizing
they would have been mythologizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mythologize
we let´s mythologize
you mythologize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mythologize
Past participle
mythologized
Present Participle
mythologizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MYTHOLOGIZE


analogize
əˈnæləˌdʒaɪz
anthologize
ænˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz
apologize
əˈpɒləˌdʒaɪz
de-energize
diːˈɛnəˌdʒaɪz
demythologise
ˌdiːmɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz
demythologize
ˌdiːmɪˈθɒləˌdʒaɪz
energize
ˈɛnəˌdʒaɪz
etymologize
ˌɛtɪˈmɒləˌdʒaɪz
eulogize
ˈjuːləˌdʒaɪz
geologise
dʒɪˈɒləˌdʒaɪz
geologize
dʒɪˈɒləˌdʒaɪz
lethargize
ˈleθəˌdʒaɪz
mineralogize
ˌmɪnəˈræləˌdʒaɪz
neologise
nɪˈɒləˌdʒaɪz
paralogize
pəˈræləˌdʒaɪz
reenergize
riːˈenəˌdʒaɪz
syllogize
ˈsɪləˌdʒaɪz
synergize
ˈsɪnəˌdʒaɪz
tautologize
tɔːˈtɒləˌdʒaɪz
technologize
tekˈnɒləˌdʒaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MYTHOLOGIZE

mythologer
mythologian
mythologic
mythological
mythologically
mythologies
mythologisation
mythologise
mythologiser
mythologist
mythologization
mythologizer
mythology
mythomane
mythomania
mythomaniac
mythopeic
mythopoeia
mythopoeic
mythopoeism

WORDS THAT END LIKE MYTHOLOGIZE

catalogize
chronologize
dialogize
diphthongize
elegize
epilogize
homologize
monologize
monophthongize
neologize
pathologize
phrenologize
prologize
psychologize
remythologize
strategize
theologize

Synonyms and antonyms of mythologize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mythologize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MYTHOLOGIZE

Find out the translation of mythologize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mythologize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mythologize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

神化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mitificar
570 millions of speakers

English

mythologize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mythologize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأساطير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мифы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mitificar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mythologize
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mythifier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mythologize
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mythologisierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

神話を語る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mythologize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mythologize
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mythologize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புராணமாக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पौराणिक कथा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

efsaneleştirmeyi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mitizzare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mitologizować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

міфи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mythologize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mythologize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mythologize
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mytologi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mythologize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mythologize

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MYTHOLOGIZE»

The term «mythologize» is normally little used and occupies the 135.769 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MYTHOLOGIZE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mythologize

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3 QUOTES WITH «MYTHOLOGIZE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mythologize.
1
Marcus Buckingham
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
2
Amy Hempel
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
3
Brian K. Vaughan
After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYTHOLOGIZE»

Discover the use of mythologize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mythologize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise ...
Century Standard Webster Worcester mythologize mythologize mythologize mythologize mythopeic mythopeic mythopoeic mythopoeie obblijjnto obblignto obbligato obbligato Comparative list of variable spellings Oxford 395 Divisions ...
Theodore Low De Vinne, 1902
2
The Plimpton Press Year Book: An Exhibit of Versatility
... mortalize mustache mustache mustache moustache mythologize mythopeic mythologize mythopeic mythologize mythopoeic mythologize mythopoeic naphthalene naphthalize naphthalene naphthalize naphthalene naphthalize naphthalene ...
Plimpton Press, 1911
3
Cultural Portrayals of African Americans: Creating an ...
CHAPTER 3 Tarzan in the Classroom: How "Educational" Films Mythologize Africa and Miseducate Americans Sheila S Walker with Jennifer Rasamimanana Both commercial and educational media images of Africa and Afro-America, in the ...
Janis Faye Hutchinson, 1997
4
Rudolf Bultmann: Interpreting Faith for the Modern Era
III THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE AND THE MODERN WORLD-VIEW [WELTBILD] 1 An objection often heard against the attempt to de-mythologize is that it takes the modern world-view as the criterion of the interpretation of the Scripture and the ...
Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Roger A. Johnson
5
Theological Audacities: Selected Essays
To mythologize is to “confuse” God with idols or with humans, time with eternity; it is “the possibility of appealing to an entity held in considerable esteem only among humans as if it were God; it is the possibility of projecting what is great in time ...
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt, Andreas Pangritz, Paul S. Chung, 2010
6
New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in ...
The narrators of the texts being considered in the pages that follow, however, challenge these "given” mythologies and address their self-imposed task: to mythologize at least their, if not our, past(s) in a manner appropriate to New World ...
Marie Vautier, 1998
7
The Spiritual Guidance of Children: Montessori, Godly Play, ...
For example you need to mythologize (think in narrative) before you can de- mythologize and you can't re-mythologize unless you have de-mythologized. In short, you can't “move on” from structures found to be inadequate if you have never ...
Jerome W. Berryman, 2013
8
On the Threshold of Transformation
Day 14 WHEN WE DON'T MYTHOLOGIZE, WE PATHOLOGIZE ... But if we don't mythologize, and give greater meaning to our actions, we will almost always pathologize and see everything as wrong, absurd, or requiring a change or fix before ...
Richard Rohr, 2010
9
Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia
The difference between the Sexes is part of a larger mythic structure, the distinction between nature and culture. One of the important uses to which the nature-culture contrast has been put is, rather paradoxically, to "mythologize" (in Barthes's ...
Jane Monnig Atkinson, Shelly Errington, 1990
10
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and ...
At leastthe Japanese mythologize the oarfish, though, believing it to be the messenger from Ry jin's, the dragon sea god's, undersea palace of Ry g j ,and the harbinger of earthquakes. Itis said that one day within the palace walls isthe ...
Matthew Gavin Frank, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MYTHOLOGIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mythologize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rob Edelman: Listen To Me Marlon
You will be faced with “people staring at you like an animal in a zoo,” as well as “people (who) will mythologize you, no matter what you do. «WAMC, Jul 15»
2
What's 'politically correct' history? Ask a politician
When we mythologize our history, we often make it two-dimensional, but history isn't like a painting. It's more like a sculpture. And the more ... «AL.com, Jul 15»
3
Scientists Decide There Are 4 Kinds Of Drunks
After a night of hard drinking, people tend to mythologize themselves. The results were assessed against a personality index (of the sort that ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
4
Book, movie, stories mythologize Blackfoot River
Jerry O'Connell talks about one of the locations on the Blackfoot River from Norman Maclean's most famous book, "A River Runs Through It," ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
5
Racing the Rain by John L. Parker Jr.
In Once a Runner's lighter moments, Parker captures that too, the way collegiate runners tend to mythologize the rigors of their training to ... «Paste Magazine, Jul 15»
6
Cardinal Kasper: Modernist in Our Midst?
They therefore “de-mythologize” and deconstruct the supernatural element of the faith. Stark's analysis. I will give you one of the best examples. «Patheos, Jul 15»
7
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman: mythbusting or manipulation?
And that brings us back to the original questions: Is this Harper Lee's attempt to de-mythologize Atticus Finch (a character based on her own ... «Scholars and Rogues, Jul 15»
8
Egyptian Artist Wael Shawky Is Pulling the Strings of Crusade and …
... Shawky alerts us to the contemporary ideologies and events informing militants who mythologize modern versions of crusaders and jihadis ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
9
Every Five Years, Ragnar Kjartansson Asks His Mother to Spit on Him
... where Kjartansson hauled a drum set, guitars, and even a grand piano up mountains, mythologize the performer to an absurd degree. «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
10
I Changed My Name When I Got Married And Instantly Regretted It
The tendency families have to self-mythologize was particularly present with us; we were the descendants of a man who'd miraculously ... «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»

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