analogize

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analogize

verb analogizes · analogizing · analogized · analogise

To express as an analogy. The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
transitive To treat one thing as analogous to another. 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 nat

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verb to express as an analogy

한국어	유추하다 yuchuhada
Português	analogizar

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@misc{analogize_2026,
  title = {analogize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/analogize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}