characterizeverb [ T ]
UK usually characterise uk/ˈkær.ək.tə.raɪz/us/ˈker.ək.tɚ.aɪz/Something that characterizes another thing is typical of it:
Bright colours and bold strokes characterize his early paintings.
to describe something by stating its main qualities:
In her essay, she characterizes the whole era as a period of radical change.
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- trademark
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
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