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parenthesize

[ puh-ren-thuh-sahyz ]

verb (used with object)

parenthesized, parenthesizing.
  1. to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  2. to put between marks of parenthesis:

    to parenthesize the pronunciation of a word.

  3. to interlard with parenthetic remarks, as a speech.


parenthesize

/ ±èəˈ°ùÉ›²Ôθɪˌ²õ²¹Éª³ú /

verb

  1. to place in parentheses
  2. to insert as a parenthesis
  3. to intersperse (a speech, writing, etc) with parentheses
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ü²Ôp²¹Â·°ù±ð²Ôt³ó±ð·²õ¾±³ú±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of parenthesize1

First recorded in 1830–40; parenthes(is) + -ize
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Example Sentences

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Parenthesize your workouts by fueling up before and after vigorous exercise and longer workouts lasting more than an hour.

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Experiments like this, which parenthesize MLS weekend action in a coherent way, may help.

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Henry Bouquet, who was also, it may be said in passing, a warm friend of Franklin, the pen of the latter halts for a moment to parenthesize the fact that God had blessed him with two or three enemies to keep him in order.

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Let me parenthesize here and have done with it, that if I use my genders in hopeless interchange, or am forced to the apologetic "it," you must extricate the sex as best you can, and re-register your old vow to reform the English language.

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I will parenthesize all the interruptions.

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