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analogize

verb

Etymology

From analogy + -ize.

  1. derived from ἀναλογίᾱ
  2. borrowed from analogia
  3. suffixed as analogize — “analogy + ize”

Definitions

  1. To express as an analogy.

    • The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.

  2. To treat one thing as analogous to another.

    • Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
    • Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA