somatize
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somatize (third-person singular simple present somatizes, present participle somatizing, simple past and past participle somatized)
- (transitive) To express (a psychological process) through physical symptoms such as pain or anxiety; to have a psychosomatic reaction to (e.g. a situation).
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 6, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- “ […] I don’t feel anything, naturally, since I’ve somatized the anxiety.”