All allegorize synonyms

verb allegorize

• liken — to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
• compare — When you compare things, you consider them and discover the differences or similarities between them.
• correlate — If one thing correlates with another, there is a close similarity or connection between them, often because one thing causes the other. You can also say that two things correlate.
• relate — to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
• link — a torch, especially of tow and pitch.
• connect — If something or someone connects one thing to another, or if one thing connects to another, the two things are joined together.
• match — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
• represent — to present again or anew.
• illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
• typify — to serve as a typical example of; exemplify.
• mirror — any reflecting surface, as the surface of calm water under certain lighting conditions.
• portray — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
• depict — To depict someone or something means to show or represent them in a work of art such as a drawing or painting.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• clarify — To clarify something means to make it easier to understand, usually by explaining it in more detail.
• highlight — to emphasize or make prominent.
• interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
• delineate — If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
• reveal — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
• manifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
• personify — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
• lay out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• symbolize — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
• spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
• point up — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
• standardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
• vie — to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority: Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.
• assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.
• resemble — to be like or similar to.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
• parallel — parallel processing
• picture — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
• show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
• imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
• clear — Something that is clear is easy to understand, see, or hear.
• instance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
• vivify — to give life to; animate; quicken.
• proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
• disclose — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
• standardise — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
• demonstrate — If you demonstrate a particular skill, quality, or feeling, you show by your actions that you have it.
• symbolise — to be a symbol of; stand for or represent in the manner of a symbol.
• come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• make like — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• clear up — When you clear up or clear a place up, you tidy things and put them away.
• get across — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• get over — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• limelight — Theater. (formerly) a lighting unit for spotlighting the front of the stage, producing illumination by means of a flame of mixed gases directed at a cylinder of lime and having a special lens for concentrating the light in a strong beam. the light so produced. Chiefly British. a lighting unit, especially a spotlight.