similize
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Verb edit
similize (third-person singular simple present similizes, present participle similizing, simple past and past participle similized)
- (transitive, intransitive) To liken; to compare.
- to similize a person, thing, or act
- 1867, James Russell Lowell, Fireside Travels:
- How Calderon would have similized this pretty creature had he ever seen it! How would he have run him up and down the gamut of simile!
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- “similize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.