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