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
Etymology
Origin of allegorize
1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin allēgorīzāre; see allegory, -ize
Example Sentences
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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
Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2011
She has said these songs allegorize intensely personal moments in her life.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010
All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
It tweaked the movie-cowboy archetype at a time when westerns allegorized the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
And they often, though by no means always, center on aspects of the queer struggle—themes to which Highsmith’s novels after The Price of Salt continued to return, if only in oblique, highly allegorized fashion.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2015
Though he hardly clarifies his intention, Mailer apparently figures that he has thus allegorized Vietnam as a case of Texas-style Americans neurotically in love with war.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty.
From Time Magazine Archive
The loves of Faustus and Helen are readily allegorized into the passion of the Renaissance for classical beauty, the passion to which all that is not beauty seemed very dross.
From Helen of Troy by Lang, Andrew
If it’s an allegory, it trivializes whatever it’s allegorizing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The square corner pillars support figures allegorizing the six divisions of the earth.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
Masaccio, we see, was peopling a visible world; the Spanish chapel painters were merely allegorizing, as agents of holiness.
From A Wanderer in Florence by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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