mitificar

to mythologize

Desde la novela Aloma, y casi sin darse cuenta, Rodoreda contribuyó a mitificar Barcelona.	With the novel Aloma, and almost without realizing it, Rodoreda contributed to the mythologizing of Barcelona.
Los historiadores parecen haber cometido este error para mitificar la Revolución (Blanning 93; Schwab 152).	This error seems to have been committed by historians in order to mythologise the Revolution. (Blanning 93; Schwab 152).
El redescubrimiento de esta ciudad le produjo un fuerte impacto. Esto lo llevó a mitificar sus barrios suburbanos, el tango, los compadritos.	The rediscovery of his homeland greatly impacted him and led him to mystify its suburbs, the tango, and even the neighborhood hoodlums.
Es importante señalar que se ha pretendido mitificar la eficiencia del sector privado, cuando en realidad hay casos que demuestran que éste puede ser ineficiente.	It is important to point out that there have been attempts to mystify the efficiency of the private sector when, in reality, there are clear cases that demonstrate that this sector can operate inefficiently.
Es una película pensada, al tiempo, para mostrar en imágenes las magníficas realizaciones del Estado Novo y mitificar a sus líderes, sensibilizados con el pueblo portugués, confiado, solidario y agradecido a sus benefactores.	It is a film that at the time intended to show, through pictures, the magnificent achievements of the Estado Novo and to mythicize its leaders as sensitive towards the Portuguese people, who are confident, caring and grateful to their benefactors.
Unir a maestros y a damnificados fue la consigna, sin mitificar a los damnificados como santos ángeles, ni condenarlos como delincuentes desordenados.	The idea was to unite the teachers and the refugees without treating the refugees as either angels or disorderly delinquents.
De modo que este seminario no pretende mitificar las figuras de Tosquelles y Guattari, sino hacer de ellos un lugar productivo para el pensamiento contemporáneo.	As such, this seminar does not aim to mythicize Tosquelles and Guattari, but to use them as a productive site for contemporary thought.
En vez de mitificar el arte pre-suponiéndolo inaccesible, acerquémonos a todas las partes en las que está y es posible encontrarlo.	Instead of mythicizing art by believing it to be inaccessible, we will take a look at all the places where it exists and where it is possible to find it.
De hecho, al entregársele el Premio Nobel la Academia Sueca aseguró que le había entregado el galardón por saber mitificar al extremo los límites de lo real y lo irreal.	In fact, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the Swedish Academy stated that he was being honoured for his ability to mythologise to the most extreme degree possible, the boundaries of the real and the unreal.