focalize
English
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editfocalize (third-person singular simple present focalizes, present participle focalizing, simple past and past participle focalized)
- To focus, or to adjust a focus.
- To sharpen an image by focusing.
- To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
- (narratology) To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
- 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:
- The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.
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editto focus, or to adjust a focus
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Portuguese
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editfocalize
- inflection of focalizar: