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allegorize

[ al-i-guh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, al·le·go·rized, al·le·go·riz·ing.
  1. to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
  2. to understand in an allegorical sense; interpret allegorically.


verb (used without object)

, al·le·go·rized, al·le·go·riz·ing.
  1. to use allegory.

allegorize

/ ˈælɪɡəˌraɪz /

verb

  1. to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
  2. tr to interpret allegorically
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌallegoriˈzation, noun
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Other Words From

  • alle·gori·zation noun
  • alle·go·rizer noun
  • over·alle·go·rize verb (used with object) overallegorized overallegorizing
  • un·alle·go·rized adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of allegorize1

1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin allēgorīzāre; allegory, -ize
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Example Sentences

To allegorize life with a masquerade, and represent mankind generally as masquers.

(c) That therefore we can allegorize Grendel and the dragon into culture-myths connected with the "god Beow."

Next come the many attempts, old and new, to allegorize the Olympian scene, or to explain it away.

All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator.

And yet we see the Essenes "allegorize" the bloody altar out of their Bible, but cling to the document more fondly than ever.

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