Refer vs Euphemize - What's the difference?
refer | euphemize |
To direct the attention of.
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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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:
To describe or refer to by using one or more euphemisms.
* 1857 , , Two Years Ago , ch. 2:
In transitive terms the difference between refer and euphemize
is that refer is to place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation while euphemize is to describe or refer to by using one or more euphemisms.refer
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Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Synonyms
* delegate * directDerived terms
* refer to * refer someone toAnagrams
* English palindromes ----euphemize
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Alternative forms
* euphemiseVerb
- 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.
- 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/euphemisationReferences
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