Analogize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Analogize is a verb meaning To express as an analogy.
Meaning
To express as an analogy.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.
Example Sentences
The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
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.
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.
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
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include similize, similarize, like, assimilate, metaphorize, belike.
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