mythologize
- v construct a myth
The poet mythologized that the King had three sons - v make into a myth
- Hanged in Melbourne in 1880 aged 25, his short life was easy to mythologize but harder to grasp.
- Be ready from Day 1 to mythologize whatever Horatio Alger elements of the nominee's life story foster instant legend and likeability.
- Scientists ultimately hope to de-mythologize sharks, to erase their images as rogue man-eaters like the great white shark that figures in Jaws, the Peter Benchley novel turned .