Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To describe using metaphors.

  2. (intransitive, rare)To use metaphors.

Translations

3 languages

Origin

From metaphor + -ize.

From metaphor + -ize.

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Forms

metaphorizes, metaphorizing, metaphorized, metaphorized
Base formmetaphorize · to metaphorize
3rd person singularmetaphorizes
Present participlemetaphorizing
Past simplemetaphorized
Past participlemetaphorized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymetaphorize
he, she, itmetaphorizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmetaphorized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave metaphorized
he, she, ithas metaphorized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill metaphorize

Word family

2 related words
Deriveddemetaphorizeremetaphorize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
metaphorB2metaphoricalmetaphoricallymetaphysicalmetaphysicsmete
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