51³Ō¹Ļ

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literalize

especially British, ±ō¾±³ŁĀ·±š°łĀ·²¹±ōĀ·¾±²õ±š

[lit-er-uh-lahyz]

verb (used with object)

literalized, literalizing 
  1. to make literal; interpret literally.



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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • literalization noun
  • literalizer noun
  • unliteralized adjective
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of literalize1

First recorded in 1820–30; literal + -ize
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Example Sentences

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Or to literalize the notion that, duh, relationships can be scary?

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But even here — under a tangle of rope and lace, designed by Rajha Shakiry, that seems to literalize the World Wide Web — the argot of social media invades.

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The weight of her anxieties come pouring down on her in a literalized form.

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If anything, technological shifts — there’s discussion of the iPhone-shot ā€œTangerine,ā€ and of ā€œLeviathan,ā€ in which, according to Cousins, the filmmakers literalized the concept of a fisheye lens by attaching cameras to fish — get short shrift.

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The camera darts between the lovers’ angry, exhausted faces in a flurry of slamming edits and chin-severing closeups, as if to literalize the idea that something between them has broken.

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