ALLEGORIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allegorize mean? 

• ALLEGORIZE (verb)
  The verb ALLEGORIZE has 2 senses:

1. interpret as an allegory

2. make into an allegory

  Familiarity information: ALLEGORIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLEGORIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they allegorize    ... he / she / it allegorizes   
Past simple: allegorized   
Past participle: allegorized   
-ing form: allegorizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interpret as an allegory

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

allegorise; allegorize

Hypernyms (to "allegorize" is one way to...):

construe; interpret; see (make sense of; assign a meaning to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

allegory (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)

allegory (a short moral story (often with animal characters))

allegory (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into an allegory

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

allegorise; allegorize

Context example:

The story was allegorized over time

Hypernyms (to "allegorize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

allegorizer (someone who communicates in allegories)

allegory (an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor)

allegory (a short moral story (often with animal characters))

allegory (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)