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- verb transitive To
romanticize too much.
Etymologies
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over- + romanticize
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Examples
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It's easy to overromanticize a grimy, long-lost era, but reacquainting myself with works like Matta-Clark's silent color film of himself in black tights and white gloves, a hippie
NYT > Global Home By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN 2011
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And finally a movie that doesn't overromanticize Marie Antoinette, too.
Self-Styled Siren 2009
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