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stylize

US/ˈstaɪlaɪz/

stylize verb: to represent (someone or something) in a particular style.

stylize: to represent (someone or something) in a particular style
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Verb

stylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)

  1. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
  2. (transitive) To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.

stylize meaning in Tamil

stylize in Tamil

மரபுச்சட்டமாக்கு

Examples of stylize in a sentence

  • The symbol for the planet Mars is a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the god Mars.
  • The komainu can be traced to India and that culture’s stylized representations of the lion.
  • On his bas-reliefs and plaques, allegorical, stylized, and muscular heroes break their chains and brandish large swords.

All 18 example sentences with stylize

Forms of stylize

third-person singular presentstylizes
present participlestylizing
past participlestylized
paststylized
alternative Commonwealthstylise

Origin of stylize

From style + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.

Words formed from stylize

Questions about stylize

What does stylize mean?
Stylize means to represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
What is stylize in Tamil?
Stylize in Tamil is மரபுச்சட்டமாக்கு. See Stylize meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stylize?
Stylize is a verb.
How do you pronounce stylize?
Stylize is pronounced /ˈstaɪlaɪz/ (US).
What is the past tense of stylize?
The past tense of stylize is stylized.

Words near stylize in the dictionary

  1. stylites
  2. stylitic
  3. stylitism
  4. stylization
  5. stylizations
  6. stylize
  7. stylized
  8. stylized fact
  9. stylized facts
  10. stylizer
  11. stylizers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stylize (page history and authors); stylize (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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