similize

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verb

To liken; to compare.

“to similize a person, thing, or act”

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbsimilize (third-person singular simple present similizes, present participle similizing, simple past and past participle similized)

present singular third person similizes · participle present similizing · participle past similized · past similized

  1. ambitransitiveTo liken; to compare.

    to similize a person, thing, or act

    1 more example

    How Calderon would have similized this pretty creature had he ever seen it! How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile!

    1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC
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APA

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Chicago

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