analogize
English
Alternative forms
Verb
analogize (third-person singular simple present analogizes, present participle analogizing, simple past and past participle analogized)
- To express as an analogy.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
- (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.
- 2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times:
- 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.
- 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:
- 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.
- 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
- 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.
- 2022 April 22, Lee Kovarsky, “Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution”, in SCOTUSblog:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to express as an analogy
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Portuguese
Verb
analogize
- inflection of analogizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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