literalize

• Interpréter ou représenter quelque chose de manière littérale ou exacte, souvent utilisé dans un contexte littéraire ou linguistique.

A verb meaning to interpret or represent something in a literal or exact manner, often used in literary or linguistic contexts.

1. To interpret or render literallyC1formal

   To take something figuratively or abstract and express it in a concrete or literal way; to make literal.

   rendre littéral

   • The poet chose to literalize the metaphor in the second stanza.
   • In her translation, she tried to literalize the idiom, losing its nuance.
   • The director literalized the symbolic scene by showing it exactly as described.

   Synonymesconcretizeembodymaterializerealizereify

   Antonymesabstract