analogize

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Etymology

analogy +‎ -ize

Verb

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  1. To express as an analogy.
  2. To treat one thing as analogous to another.
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    • 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
      Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.

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