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Allegorize

Definitions: Allegorize

Allegorize

Verb

1. Interpret as an allegory.

2. Make into an allegory; of stories.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Allegorize

Synonym: allegorise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Allegorize

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Metaphor

Verb: employ -metaphor; Noun: personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Allegorize

English words defined with "allegorize": Allegorized, Allegorizing. (references)

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Modern Translations: Allegorize

Language Translations for "allegorize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏عبر بالمجاز. (various references)

   

French

  

allégoriser. (various references)

   

German

  

allegorisieren, allegorisch verstehen, allegorisch auslegen, sinnbildlich darstellen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αλληγορώ. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengkiaskan, mengibaratkan. (various references)

   

Manx

  

cosoylaghey (assimilate, associate, compare). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allegorizeay

   

Portuguese

  

fazer alegorias, considerar como alegoria. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trata în mod alegoric, folosi alegorii. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

высказываться. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

govoriti u alegorijama. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alegorizar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alegori biçiminde yorumlamak, kinaye yazmak. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

створювати алегорії, висловлюватися алегорично. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Allegorize

Derivations

Words beginning with "allegorize": allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizers, allegorizes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Allegorize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allegorism. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Allegorize

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-l-o-r-z"

-1 letter: legalizer.

-2 letters: legalize.

-3 letters: aerogel, alleger, allegro, galilee, gazelle, glazier, gorilla, realize, reglaze, zorilla, zorille.

-4 letters: allege, areole, galere, galore, gaoler, giller, glaire, glazer, gloria, goalie, grille, lazier, logier, loreal, regale.

-5 letters: aerie, agile, aglee, agree, algor, allee, argil, argle, argol, ariel, azole, eager, eagle, eagre, gazer, glair, glare, glaze, glial, gloze, goral, grail, graze.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-l-o-r-z"
 

+1 letter: allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes.

 

+2 letters: allegorizers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Allegorize


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 65 67 6F 72 69 7A 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    .-..    .    --.    ---    .-.    ..    --..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101111 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#103 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#122 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 0065 0067 006F 0072 0069 007A 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35787871738184759271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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