literalise

• Veraltetes Verb, das bedeutet, etwas wörtlich zu interpretieren oder darzustellen; etwas buchstäblich zu machen.

An obsolete verb meaning to interpret or represent something in a literal manner; to make literal.

1. Make literalC1formalbritish

   To express or interpret something in a literal manner, avoiding figurative or metaphorical meaning.

   wörtlich nehmen

   • The translator chose to literalise the poet's metaphors, which lost some of their beauty.
   • In legal contexts, one must often literalise complex clauses to avoid ambiguity.
   • His attempt to literalise the joke made it unfunny.

   Synonymeconcretizeliteralizereify

   Antonymeembellishimplypersonifysuggest