Meaning

To express as an analogy..

Definitions by Sense

1. To express as an analogy.
2. (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• analogizes
• analogizing
• analogized
• analogise

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When Should You Use Analogize?

Use analogize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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