Usually means: Attribute perfection unrealistically to something.
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  1. idealise: Merriam-Webster
  2. idealise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. idealise: Vocabulary.com
  4. idealise: Wordnik
  5. idealise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. idealise: Wiktionary
  7. idealise: Dictionary.com
  8. idealise: Rhymezone
  9. idealise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. idealise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. idealise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. idealise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealise: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of idealize. [(transitive) To regard something as ideal.]

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