sentimentalize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To give a sentimental feel to. transitive
    — Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.
  2. To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental. intransitive
    — he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers

词形变化

sentimentalizes present,singular,third-person sentimentalizing participle,present sentimentalized participle,past sentimentalized past

词汇关系

衍生词
oversentimentalize sentimentalizer unsentimentalized

词源

Etymology tree
English sentiment
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English sentimental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English sentimentalize
From sentimental + -ize.
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