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
- "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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