Antonyms for allegorize
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : al-i-guh-rahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈæl ɪ gəˌraɪz |
Definition of allegorize
- As in liken : verb compare
- As in compare : verb liken, equate
- As in illustrate : verb demonstrate, exemplify
- Charleston I might allegorize in the person of a young woman I met there.
- Extract from : « American Adventures » by Julian Street
- To this vessel the Persian poets often refer, and allegorize it in different ways.
- Extract from : « Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century » by Samuel Johnson
- Next come the many attempts, old and new, to allegorize the Olympian scene, or to explain it away.
- Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
- To allegorize life with a masquerade, and represent mankind generally as masquers.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 » by Various
- (c) That therefore we can allegorize Grendel and the dragon into culture-myths connected with the "god Beow."
- Extract from : « Beowulf » by R. W. Chambers
- And yet we see the Essenes "allegorize" the bloody altar out of their Bible, but cling to the document more fondly than ever.
- Extract from : « The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity » by Arthur Lillie
- All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator.
- Extract from : « Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 » by The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Synonyms for allegorize
- allegorize
- approach
- approximate to
- assimilate
- balance
- be in the same class as
- be on a par with
- bear comparison
- bring home
- bring near
- clarify
- clear
- clear up
- come up to
- compete with
- connect
- correlate
- delineate
- depict
- disclose
- distinguish between
- draw a picture
- draw parallel
- elucidate
- emblematize
- embody
- emphasize
- epitomize
- equal
- equate
- evidence
- evince
- exhibit
- explain
- expose
- expound
- get across
- get over
- highlight
- hold a candle to
- identify with
- illuminate
- imitate
- instance
- interpret
- lay out
- limelight
- link
- make clear
- make like
- make plain
- manifest
- mark
- match
- mirror
- notice similarities
- ostend
- parallel
- personify
- picture
- point up
- portray
- proclaim
- put alongside
- relate
- represent
- resemble
- reveal
- show
- show and tell
- show correspondence
- spotlight
- stack up with
- standardize
- symbolize
- tie up
- typify
- vie
- vivify
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