Crossword-Solution: IDEALIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idealize | v. t. | To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life. |
| Idealize | v. t. | To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2. |
| Idealize | v. i. | To form ideals. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “IDEALIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| regard or portray as perfect or nearly perfect | 1 answer |
| Form a perfect concept. | 1 answer |
| Deem perfect | 1 answer |
| Imagine as perfect. | 1 answer |
| Make out to be perfect | 1 answer |
| Overstate as great | 1 answer |
| Rate a ten | 1 answer |
| Regard as perfect | 1 answer |
| Render perfect | 1 answer |
| Represent as perfect | 1 answer |
| See through rose-colored glasses | 1 answer |
| form ideals | 1 answer |
| Romanticize | 2 answers |
| Place on a pedestal | 5 answers |
| Rate highly | 6 answers |
| DEIFY OR GLORIFY | 9 answers |
| FORM in the mind | 9 answers |
| DEEM NECESSARY (ABBR.) | 10 answers |
| DEEM PROPER | 10 answers |
| CASTLES IN THE AIR | 13 answers |
| BUILD CASTLES IN THE AIR | 14 answers |
| Deem | 25 answers |
| Pedestal | 31 answers |
| Put on a Pedestal | 34 answers |
| Admire | 39 answers |
| Visualise | 40 answers |
| Exalt | 51 answers |
| transfigure | 53 answers |
| Glamorise | 55 answers |
| Glorify | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with IDEALIZE (5)
Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba’s disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others—notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
She liked to idealize herself, to take interesting and picturesque attitudes to her own imagination; and the vivacity and spontaneity of her character gave her, really, a starting-point in experience; so that the many-colored flowers of fiction which blossomed in her talk were not so much perversions, as sympathetic exaggerations, of fact.
They were intended as designs for the stained glass of an English church.” “But whom do you idealize by that type of woman you always adopt for the Virgin?” “Nobody.” And then a thought raced along Stephen’s mind and he looked up at his friend.
Bankers, manufacturers, merchants, and mechanics seldom so idealize their own occupations; they work fifty weeks a year to go free the other two.
For instance, when we build a Greek portico, having no Pentelic marble near at hand, we use a pine-tree, one of nature's columns, which Grecian art at its best could only copy and idealize.
Quotes with IDEALIZE (3)
For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there …
Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.
We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).