literalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Or to literalize the notion that, duh, relationships can be scary?
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023
Is it too much to expect that a show about the difficulty of deciding between the light and the dark would, I dunno, literalize that conflict with a swoony bad influence?
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2018
Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2018
Something about Knott froze in childhood, leaving a body of work marked by the child’s tendency to literalize imaginative schemes.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
Whether we believe in literal fire or not, we certainly ought to ask for a reason for the Master's failure to literalize the figurative word "fire."
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William
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