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Verb: romanticize  row'man-ti`sIz
  1. Interpret romantically
    "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!"
    - romanticise [Brit], glamorize, glamourise [Brit], glamorise [Brit]
     
  2. Make romantic in style
    "The designer romanticized the little black dress"
    - romanticise [Brit]
     
  3. Act in a romantic way
    - romanticise [Brit]

Derived forms: romanticized, romanticizing, romanticizes

See also: romanticization

Type of: act, alter, behave, change, do, idealise [Brit], idealize, modify