demetaphorize

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demetaphorize (third-person singular simple present demetaphorizes, present participle demetaphorizing, simple past and past participle demetaphorized)

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