pictorialize

American  

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

especially British, pictorialise

verb (used with object)

pictorialized, pictorializing

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

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Other Word Forms

• pictorialization
  noun
• overpictorialize
  verb
• unpictorialize
  verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of pictorialize

First recorded in 1865–70; pictorial + -ize

Example Sentences

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pictorialized pictorializing

In a spookily pictorialized story, behavioral scientists Athena Aktipis and Coltan Scrivner present some delightful research about morbid curiosity and scary play.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023

He pictorialized music into a new art form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taboos are misread into Jacques Rivette’s essay “On Abjection”; his warning against aestheticizing matters of life and death is distorted into worry about pictorializing almost anything.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2016

Some delight in pictorializing the lakes and mountains of the north, while others are not satisfied with anything short of the sublime beauty and terrific grandeur of the Alps and Pyrenees.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John