Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To take away the reality of; make or consider unreal; divest of reality; present or treat in an ideal form.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make unreal; to idealize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
unreal ; toidealize .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
un- + realize
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Examples
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He would instinctively avoid every turn which might tend to unrealize, and so to make the character fascinating.
English literary criticism Various
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I reply, that the object of all these things was -- to unrealize the scene.
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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But Gabriel hadn’t been able to unrealize that she was an actual person.
Crave Laura J. Burns 2010
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I couldn’t unrealize that not all humans are the same, even though I wanted to.
Crave Laura J. Burns 2010
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