ALLEGORISE

allegorize, allegorise

(verb) make into an allegory; “The story was allegorized over time”

allegorize, allegorise

(verb) interpret as an allegory

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

allegorise (third-person singular simple present allegorises, present participle allegorising, simple past and past participle allegorised)

(transitive, British spelling) To create an allegory from some event or situation.

(intransitive, British spelling) To use allegory.

Anagrams

• allegories

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 June 2024

INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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