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synecdochise

synecdochise is the alternative form of synecdochize.

Meaning of synecdochize

Verb

synecdochize (third-person singular simple present synecdochizes, present participle synecdochizing, simple past and past participle synecdochized)

  1. To represent with or as if with a synecdoche.
    • ...for those things that synecdochize this relationship between the real and the spectral.2016, S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, page 290

Forms of synecdochise

third-person singular presentsynecdochises
present participlesynecdochising
past participlesynecdochised
pastsynecdochised

Questions about synecdochise

What is synecdochise the alternative form of?
Synecdochise is the alternative form of synecdochize.

Words near synecdochise in the dictionary

  1. synecdochical
  2. synecdochically
  3. synecdochies
  4. synecdochisation
  5. synecdochisations
  6. synecdochise
  7. synecdochised
  8. synecdochises
  9. synecdochising
  10. synecdochism
  11. synecdochist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synecdochise (page history and authors); synecdochize (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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