Definition of Euphemize

1. Verb. Refer to something with a euphemism.

Exact synonyms: Euphemise
Generic synonyms: Denote, Refer
Derivative terms: Euphemism

Definition of Euphemize

1. v. t. & i. To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.

Definition of Euphemize

1. Verb. (intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To describe or refer to by using one or more euphemisms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Euphemize

1. [v -MIZED, -MIZING, -MIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemize

euphausid
euphausids
euphausiid
euphausiids
euphemise
euphemised
euphemises
euphemising
euphemism
euphemisms
euphemist
euphemistic
euphemistical
euphemistically
euphemists
euphemize (current term)
euphemized
euphemizer
euphemizers
euphemizes
euphemizing
euphenic
euphenics
euphist
euphists
euphobia
euphobias
euphon
euphonia
euphonias

Literary usage of Euphemize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Those ladies were six feet high, extremely plain [if we may so far euphemize d'une extrême laideur] ; and the costume of each was a kind of ..."

2. The Century (1902)
"He had no desire whatever (as some would have had when wealth and fame arrived) to euphemize or efface the plain title of his profession, though he gladly ..."

3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1871)
"... it was the homage extorted by the superiority of virtue, that the devotees of sensuous self-indulgence were fain to euphemize their grovelling pursuits ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1871)
"... it was the homage extorted by the superiority of virtue, that the devotees of sensuous self-indulgence were fain to euphemize their grovelling pursuits ..."

5. Railway Secrecy and Trusts by John Milton Bonham (1890)
"... the whole unthinking mass of the people easily modify the rigor of their judgments concerning dishonesty; they condone and euphemize it, if, indeed, ..."

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