analogize

present singular third person analogizes · participle present analogizing · participle past analogized · past analogized · alternative analogise

1. To express as an analogy.

   The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.

2. transitiveTo treat one thing as analogous to another.

   Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.

   2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism

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   Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right.

   2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times

   Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.

   2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker

   Nance and the United States analogize any responsive authorization that follows a successful lethal injection challenge to responsive appropriations that would follow a successful Section 1983 claim for improved health care.

   2022 April 22, Lee Kovarsky, “Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution”, in SCOTUSblog