Definition of "mythologize" [my•thol•o•gize]

• To convert into myth; mythicize. (verb-transitive)
• To construct or relate a myth. (verb-intransitive)
• To interpret or write about myths or mythology. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Mr. Moses (who broke the law of his great namesake through a blind admiration of his example in spoiling the Egyptians) was only a new instance of that tendency to mythologize which is as strong as ever among the uneducated."
• "One of the first things Miss Winter tells Margaret is that all children mythologize their births."
• "We mythologize our soldiers, turning them into ideals of ourselves, but in the process remove them from ourselves and even themselves, setting them up as beings who can accomplish the impossible."