pictorialize

American

[pik-tawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -tohr-] / pɪkˈtɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈtoʊr- /

especially British, pictorialise

verb (used with object)

pictorialized, pictorializing

to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.

Other Word Forms

overpictorialize verb
pictorialization noun
unpictorialize verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of pictorialize

First recorded in 1865–70; pictorial + -ize

Example Sentences

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Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield�and elsewhere�at the same time.

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