allegorize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make into an allegory; narrate allegorically.
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to understand in an allegorical sense; interpret allegorically.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to transform (a story, narrative, fable, etc) into or compose in the form of allegory
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(tr) to interpret allegorically
Other Word Forms
- allegorization noun
- allegorizer noun
- overallegorize verb (used with object)
- unallegorized adjective
Etymology
Origin of allegorize
1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin allēgorīzāre; allegory, -ize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
There are plenty of obvious ways a 21st-century novelist could allegorize a story like Brinkley’s.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2013
He was a theater experimenter, a provider of vivid, cacophonous stage tableaus, incorporating ballads, verse and mime within demanding scripts that often used historical settings to dramatize, allude to or allegorize timeless issues.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
She has said these songs allegorize intensely personal moments in her life.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2010
Nothing was farther from the popular caricaturists of that age than to allegorize a doctrine or a moral lesson; on the contrary, it was their habit to interpret allegory in the most absurdly literal manner.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
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