mythicize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mythicize
    v 1: interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology; "mythicize
         the ancient stories" [syn: {mythicize}, {mythicise}]
    2: make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66"
       [syn: {mythologize}, {mythologise}, {mythicize}, {mythicise}]
       [ant: {demythologise}, {demythologize}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "mythicize":
      allegorize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, mythify, mythologize,
      narrate, novelize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report,
      retell, romance, storify, tell, tell a story, unfold a tale

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