ro ‧ man ‧ ti ‧ cize BrE AmE ( also romanticise British English ) /rəʊˈmæntəsaɪz, rəʊˈmæntɪsaɪz, rə- $ roʊ-, rə-/ verb [transitive]
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ romance , ↑ romantic , ↑ romanticism ; verb : ↑ romance , ↑ romanticize ; adjective : ↑ romantic ≠ UNROMANTIC , romanticized; adverb : ↑ romantically ]
to talk or think about things in a way that makes them seem more romantic or attractive than they really are:
a romanticized image of life during the war