literalize
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literalize (third-person singular simple present literalizes, present participle literalizing, simple past and past participle literalized)
- To make literal or prosaic
- 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 7:
- The popular "peephole" style of cover art, suggesting stolen glimpses into exotic interior territories at once psychological and geographical, literalized the voyeuristic appeal of early postwar paperback art.
- 2009 January 15, Ben Ratliff, “Club Jazz That Travels a Line Between Old Fashions and New Tastes”, in New York Times[1]:
- The band seemed at the start to literalize a mysterious piece of writing; its structure was clear when this band played it.