analogize

Verb

analogize (third-person singular simple present analogizes, present participle analogizing, simple past and past participle analogized)

1. To express as an analogy.
   • The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
2. (transitive) To treat one thing as analogous to another.
   • 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...2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times
   • 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.2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker