stylize
English
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editEtymology
editFrom style + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.
Pronunciation
edit- (US) IPA(key): /ˈstaɪlaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editstylize (third-person singular simple present stylizes, present participle stylizing, simple past and past participle stylized)
- (transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
- (transitive) To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.