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analogize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English analogy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English analogize From analogy + -ize.

Meanings

1. To express as an analogy.
   • The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
2. (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.
   • 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. 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:
   • 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. 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
   • 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. 2022 April 22, Lee Kovarsky, “Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution”, in SCOTUSblog:
   • 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. 2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

analogizable · analogization

Translations (3)

pt analogizar (to express as an analogy) · ko 유추하다 (to express as an analogy) · pl analogizować (to express as an analogy)