Glamorize

Definitions: Glamorize

Glamorize

Verb

1. Interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!".

2. Make glamorous; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!".

Synonyms: Glamorize

Synonyms: glamourise (v), romanticise (v), romanticize (v). (additional references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Singapore	The ISA, the UPA, and the Films Act allow the ban, seizure, censorship, or restriction of written, visual, or musical materials by these two agencies if they determine that such materials threaten the stability of the State, are pro-Communist, contravene moral norms, are pornographic, show excessive or gratuitous sex and violence, glamorize or promote drug use, or incite racial, religious, or linguistic animosities. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Glamorize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Glamorize" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "glamorize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		reklamoj (advertise, advertize, boost, build up, glamorise, glamourize, promote, publicize, push, sell). (various references)

Bulgarian		възвеличавам (aggrandize, glamor, glamour, glamourize). (various references)

Czech		přikrášlovat (idealize), okouzlit (beguile, bewitch, charm, enamor, enamour, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, spell, spellbind, transport), obklopit aureolou, idealizovat (idealize). (various references)

Farsi		فریبانمودن , پرزرق وبرق کردن , طلسم کردن (Spell). (various references)

German		glorifizieren (glorify), idealisieren (idealize), einen besonderen reiz verleihen, einen besonderen glanz verleihen, eine besondere faszination verleihen. (various references)

Hungarian		dicsõít (belaud, celebrate, extol, extoll, glamorise, glamourize, glorify, panegyrize). (various references)

Italian		romanzare (glamorise, glamourise, glamourize, novelise, novelize), divinizzare (deify, glamorise, glamourise, glamourize). (various references)

Pig Latin		amorizeglay

Portuguese		louvar (acclaim, applaud, belaud, celebrate, clap, commend, extoll, extort, glamorous, glamourous, Laud, magnifying glass, praise, recommend), elogiar (belaud, commend, cry up, eulogy, glamorise, glamourize, Laud, panel, praise, run up, write up), cobrir de elogios (belaud, glamorise, glamourize). (various references)

Russian		восхвалять (belaud, eulogize, glamourize, laud, magnify, panegyrize, preach up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opseniti (blind, hocus, hocus pocus). (various references)

Spanish		hacer atractivo (glamourize), embellecer (beautify, embellish, glamourize, grace, improve, pink out, prettify). (various references)

Swedish		glorifiera (glamorise, glorify), glamourisera (glamorise), glamorisera (glamorise). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้น่า�"ู (glamorise). (various references)

Turkish		gözalıcı hale getirmek, büyülemek (allure, bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), büyü yapmak (bewitch, hex, hoodoo, jinx, practise sorcery, put a jinx on, voodoo, witch). (various references)

Ukranian		рекламувати (advertise, advertize, blurb, boom, boost, glamourize, publicize, puff, push, sell, write up), вихваляти (aggrandize, allow, belaud, bepraise, eulogize, glamourize, incense, magnify, panegyrize, talk up, vaunt). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "glamorize": glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizers, glamorizes. (additional references)
	Words ending with "glamorize": deglamorize, overglamorize. (additional references)
	Words containing "glamorize": deglamorized, deglamorizes, overglamorized, overglamorizes, unglamorized. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Glamorize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glamorise, glamourize. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "glamorize" (pronounced gla"merī'z)
5	-a" m er ī' z	samurais.
4	-m er ī' z	memorize, mesmerize, polymerize, summarize.
3	-er ī' z	accessorize, authorize, burglarize, categorize, characterize, colorize, computerize, containerize, demilitarize, denuclearize, depressurize, familiarize, militarize, miniaturize, mischaracterize, motorize, pasteurize, plagiarize, polarize, popularize, pressurize, pulverize, reauthorize, rubberize, satirize, temporize, terrorize, theorize, vaporize, winterize.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-o-r-z"
	-1 letter: moralize.
	-2 letters: glazier, glomera, gomeral, gomeril, gremial, loamier.
	-3 letters: galore, gamier, gaoler, glaire, glamor, glazer, glioma, gloria, goalie, imager, lazier, logier, maigre, mailer, malgre, mazier, milage, mirage, moiler, morale, remail.
	-4 letters: agile, aimer, algor, amigo, amole, argil, argle, argol, ariel, azole, email, gamer, gazer, gimel, gizmo, glair, glare, glaze, gleam, glime, gloam, gloze, golem.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-m-o-r-z"
	+1 letter: glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizes, glamourize.
	+2 letters: deglamorize, glamorizers, glamourized, glamourizes.
	+3 letters: deglamorized, deglamorizes, demoralizing, unglamorized.
	+4 letters: deformalizing, deglamorizing, memorializing, overglamorize, renormalizing, temporalizing.
	+5 letters: demoralizingly, mongrelization, overglamorized, overglamorizes.
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