Analogize

Alternative forms

• analogise

Origin

analogy + -ize

Full definition of analogize

Verb

1. To express as an analogy.
2. To treat one thing as analogous to another.
• Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right.

Derived terms

• analogization