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Idealize

To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.

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Concoct 76% connected

To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Hatch 76% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Regard 76% connected

To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Deify 76% connected

To make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, Julius Caesar was deified.

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Ideal 74% connected

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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Ideal 74% connected

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

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Idealization 74% connected

The act or process of idealizing.

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Idealization 74% connected

The act or process of idealizing.

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