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单词 phantomize
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phantomizev.

Brit. /ˈfantəmʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfæn(t)əˌmaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– phantomize, 1900s– phantomise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: phantom n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < phantom n. + -ize suffix. Compare earlier phantomizing adj.
rare.
transitive. To make a phantom of, reduce to a phantom; spec. to explain away by interpreting in a spiritual or figurative sense.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express allegorically > turn into or explain as allegory
allegorizec1456
parabolize1851
phantomize1860
1860 J. Wolff Trav. & Adv. II. 121 Christians who phantomize the clear sense of prophecy.
1911 Times 11 Oct. 19/6 This Anglo-Belgian cable represents the first attempt that has ever been made to ‘phantomize’ a submarine cable.
1975 New Lit. Hist. 6 400 These heightened moments of self-awareness..are much better known than subtle but equally perplexing ‘fits’ which phantomize his narrative elsewhere and bring it to a halt.
1996 Poetics Today 17 354 I do not want my soul to be clothed in a borrowed appearance which will phantomize me.

Derivatives

ˈphantomized adj.
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1983 Superman (1984) 42/2 The law-breakers of Krypton were now turned into living phantoms... Once a phantomised inmate had served his sentence [etc.].
2001 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 21 Oct. (Sports section) 94 Contraction..looks to be too dramatic and complicated a proposition..in these so far phantomized labor negotiations.
phantomizer n. Obsolete = spiritualizer n. 1.Apparently an isolated use.
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1860 J. Wolff Trav. & Adv. I. xii. 379 Against the spiritual interpreters, that is, the phantomizers, of the 3rd and 4th verses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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