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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

demetaphorize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + metaphorize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To remove metaphors from.
    • My aim is to demetaphorize the question and ask "What does it matter who is speaking?", where speaking is taken literally. 2010, Graham Bradshaw, Tom Bishop, David Schalkwyk, The Achievement of Robert Weimann:

Forms

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demetaphorizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
demetaphorizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
demetaphorized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
demetaphorized Tense=Past lexicographic