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literalize

verb

Etymology

From literal + -ize.

  1. derived from littera
  2. derived from litteralis
  3. derived from literal
  4. inherited from literal
  5. suffixed as literalize — “literal + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make literal or prosaic

    • The popular "peephole" style of cover art, suggesting stolen glimpses into exotic interior territories at once psychological and geographical, literalized the voyeuristic appeal of early postwar paperback art.
    • The band seemed at the start to literalize a mysterious piece of writing; its structure was clear when this band played it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for literalize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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