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literalizes

literalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of literalize.

Meaning of literalize

Verb

literalize (third-person singular simple present literalizes, present participle literalizing, simple past and past participle literalized)

  1. To make literal or prosaic
    • 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.2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 7

Questions about literalizes

What is literalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Literalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of literalize.

Words near literalizes in the dictionary

  1. literalizations
  2. literalize
  3. literalized
  4. literalizer
  5. literalizers
  6. literalizes
  7. literalizing
  8. literall
  9. literally
  10. literally who
  11. literalness

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