transcription, транскрипция: [ sentɪmentəlaɪz ]
( sentimentalizes, sentimentalizing, sentimentalized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'sentimentalise'
If you sentimentalize something, you make it seem sentimental or think about it in a sentimental way.
He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them...
He’s the kind of filmmaker who doesn’t hesitate to over-sentimentalize.
...Rupert Brooke’s sentimentalised glorification of war.
VERB : V n , V , V-ed