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metonymizing

metonymizing is the present participle and gerund of metonymize.

Meaning of metonymize

Verb

metonymize (third-person singular simple present metonymizes, present participle metonymizing, simple past and past participle metonymized)

  1. To represent (something) by a part of itself.

Questions about metonymizing

What is metonymizing the present participle and gerund of?
Metonymizing is the present participle and gerund of metonymize.

Words near metonymizing in the dictionary

  1. metonymics
  2. metonymies
  3. metonymize
  4. metonymized
  5. metonymizes
  6. metonymizing
  7. metonymous
  8. metonymously
  9. metonyms
  10. metonymy
  11. metoo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metonymizing (page history and authors); metonymize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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