glamorize

glamorize
/glam"euh ruyz'/, v.t., glamorized, glamorizing.
1. to make glamorous.
2. to glorify or romanticize: an adventure film that tended to glamorize war.
Also, glamourize; esp. Brit., glamourise.
[1935-40, Amer.; GLAMOR + -IZE]

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