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Answer for the clue "Make fashionable ", 9 letters:
glamorize

Word definitions for glamorize in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also glamourize , 1901, from glamor + -ize . Related: Glamorized ; glamorizing .\n

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hollywood has always glamorized drinking. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Why would anyone want to glamorize a nightmare?

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 To make or give the appearance of being ''glamorous''. 2 To glorify; to romanticize. vb. 1 To make or give the appearance of being ''glamorous''. 2 To glorify; to romanticize.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!" [syn: romanticize , romanticise , glamourise ] make glamorous and attractive; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!" [syn: glamourise , glamourize , glamorise ...

Usage examples of glamorize.

To try to glamorize her family history by connecting it with the heroic mountaineer?

You know the movie versions, the cleaned up, romanticized, glamorized crap.

I said no, it was full of violence and I did not like the way it glamorized some very sordid individuals.

He thought that men had been willing to work for him when he plugged known crooks for municipal elections, when he glamorized red-light districts, when he ruined reputations by scandalous libel, when he sobbed over the mothers of gangsters.

Roarke is a successful man, and a glamorized one," she said for lack of a better term.

Your government may frown on it, but most of human space still glamorizes the Ballet, sees it as something beautiful and even transcendent.

Her aim was to win them over and she always did that by recognizing the work performed by her listeners and glamorizing it where she could.

The dietician at the hospital had given her seventeen low-calorie, low cholesterol recipes for glamorizing a flattened chicken breast: with lemon and toasted almonds, with artichoke hearts and garlic, and so forth.

She smirked at her work and herself-now who was guilty of glamorizing a sim?

She smirked at her work and herself—now who was guilty of glamorizing a sim?

She smirked at her work and herself—now who was guilty of glamorizing a sim?

We may be traumatizing every child in the land, and every adult who is reckless enough to smile at (or, God forbid, touch) one, and glamorizing what must after all be a fairly lame and pathetic pleasure at best, and giving demagogues and lynch mobs something to work with, and we may even be making the problem itself substantially worse, and hampering efforts to deal with it—.

Rebuilt, and glamorized to make us happy, once we were stuck here for a century or so, Base Town was a strange sight, white as meringue against NX 5's lemon sky.