Antonyms for epitomize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ih-pit-uh-mahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈpɪt əˌmaɪz

Definition of epitomize

Origin : 1590s, "shorten, condense," from epitome + -ize. Meaning "typify, embody" is from 1620s. Related: Epitomized; epitomizing; epitomizes.

verb typify
verb encapsulate

Example sentences :

"You epitomize it beautifully," said Mr. Caryll, with a reversion to his habitual manner.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

They epitomize all the thought, passion, and poetry of a nation and of a period.
Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 » by Elizabeth Bisland

They epitomize the moral and intellectual life of the artist.
Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire

Doesn't that epitomize the contempt of the highlander for the lowlander?
Extract from : « In the Oregon Country » by George Palmer Putnam

But did he epitomize all science in his own person as Hippocrates did and Galen and Aristotle?
Extract from : « The Atheist's Mass » by Honore de Balzac

Perhaps the tendency of modern journalism is to epitomize too much.
Extract from : « Remarks » by Bill Nye

And what a little thing thus to epitomize the whole hopeless standstill of their circumstances!
Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions

Remember that you are not merely to simulate nature; you are, by a process of compressing much in little, to epitomize it.
Extract from : « Making A Rock Garden » by Henry Sherman Adams

I extended one arm with a gesture intended to epitomize great majesty.
Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck

Those three items may be said to epitomize the history of Ireland under the Union—coercion, pauperization, deficient education.
Extract from : « The Framework of Home Rule » by Erskine Childers

Synonyms for epitomize

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