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idealizei‧deal‧ize (also idealise British English) /aɪˈdɪəlaɪz/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEidealize |
Present | I, you, we, they | idealize | | he, she, it | idealizes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | idealized | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have idealized | | he, she, it | has idealized | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had idealized | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will idealize | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have idealized |
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Present | I | am idealizing | | he, she, it | is idealizing | | you, we, they | are idealizing | Past | I, he, she, it | was idealizing | | you, we, they | were idealizing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been idealizing | | he, she, it | has been idealizing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been idealizing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be idealizing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been idealizing |
- People often idealize the past.
- She always idealized her father, who had died when she was five.
- The movie idealizes life in the 1600s.
- Continuity is idealized as a family relationship and is symbolized in terms such as parent company or child subcontractor.
- He had one friend, Adam, whom he idealized.
- It's because you idealize kids, Meg.
- It is certainly less idealized, and less given to black-and-white distinctions.
- On their back panels are usually scenes from a Bengali film or an idealized landscape.
- We idealize the world of jobs and conveniently forget how boring and depressing most people found it.
to think that someone or something is perfect when they are not► idealize also idealise British to consider or show someone or something as perfect, without noticing their faults: · People often idealize the past.· She always idealized her father, who had died when she was five. ► put somebody on a pedestal to wrongly think that someone is perfect so that you are unable to treat them as an ordinary person: · It's very common for men to put women they love on a pedestal. ► can do no wrong if one person thinks that another person can do no wrong , they think they are perfect, even though they really do have faults: · Whatever trouble Eddy gets into, Mum still thinks he can do no wrong,· Of course, the fans believe that the players can do no wrong. perfect as an idea, but impossible in reality► ideal · Plato dreamed of an ideal society.· A completely new kitchen would be ideal, but I don't think that we can afford it. ► utopian a utopian society is one in which you imagine there is a perfect social or political situation, although this is unlikely to ever really exist: · The debate was about the impossibility of a utopian society.a utopian dream (=when you think about and wish for utopian society): · Marxism was a Utopian dream. ► idealized also idealised British an idealized view or description of something considers or shows it as perfect when really it is not: · I think you have an idealized idea of what a doctor does.· The film showed an idealized view of rural life in the nineteenth century.· an idealized image of motherhood to imagine or represent something or someone as being perfect or better than they really are: Society continues to idealize the two-parent family. an idealized view of marriage—idealization /aɪˌdɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [countable, uncountable] |