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Describe vs Euphemize - What's the difference?

describe | euphemize |

As verbs the difference between describe and euphemize

is that describe is (label) to represent in words while euphemize is to utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.

describe

English

Verb

(describ)
  • (label) To represent in words.
  • * November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
    • Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.
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  • (label) To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
  • * 1826 , (James Fenimore Cooper), (The Last of the Mohicans)
    • Uncas described an arc in the water with his own blade, and as the canoe passed swiftly on, Chingachgook recovered his paddle, and flourishing it on high, he gave the war-whoop of the Mohicans.
  • To give rise to a geometrical structure.
  • To reveal a new species by scientifically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
  • (label) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
  • * Bible, (w) xviii. 9
    • Passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book.

    Synonyms

    * (to represent in words) portray, betell, depict, report * (to represent in writing) bewrite

    Related terms

    * describable * description * descriptive * descriptivism * descriptivist * descriptor * scribe

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    euphemize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * euphemise

    Verb

  • To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
  • * 1999 , A. J. Meier, "When Is a Woman a Lady?" American Speech , vol. 74, no. 1, p. 63:
    • There seems to be some support here for the claim that the older group felt a greater need to euphemize in the two contexts in question.
  • To describe or refer to by using one or more euphemisms.
  • * 1857 , , Two Years Ago , ch. 2:
    • The pools in general are bedded with black mud, and creamed over with oily flakes which may proceed from the tar on the vessels' sides, and may also from "decomposing animal matter," as we euphemise it now-a-days.

    Derived terms

    * euphemizer/euphemiser * euphemization/euphemisation

    References

    *" euphemize" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .