"euphemize" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "euphemizer"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "euphemiser"
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  "etymology_text": "From euphem(ism) + -ize.",
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    {
      "form": "euphemizes",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "euphemizing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "euphemized",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "euphemized",
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          "ref": "1999, A. J. Meier, “When Is a Woman a Lady?”, in American Speech, volume 74, number 1, page 63:",
          "text": "There seems to be some support here for the claim that the older group felt a greater need to euphemize in the two contexts in question.",
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        }
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        "To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically."
      ],
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          "euphemism",
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        ],
        [
          "euphemistically",
          "euphemistically"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically",
          "word": "euphemisieren"
        }
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          "ref": "1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 2, in Two Years Ago:",
          "text": "The pools in general are bedded with black mud, and creamed over with oily flakes which may proceed from the tar on the vessels' sides, and may also from \"decomposing animal matter,\" as we euphemise it now-a-days.",
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        "To describe in euphemistic terms."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "describe",
          "describe"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to describe in euphemistic terms",
          "word": "schönreden"
        }
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "euphemise"
    }
  ],
  "word": "euphemize"
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      "word": "euphemizer"
    },
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      "word": "euphemiser"
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    {
      "word": "euphemization"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "euphemized",
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, A. J. Meier, “When Is a Woman a Lady?”, in American Speech, volume 74, number 1, page 63:",
          "text": "There seems to be some support here for the claim that the older group felt a greater need to euphemize in the two contexts in question.",
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        "To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically."
      ],
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          "euphemism",
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        ],
        [
          "euphemistically",
          "euphemistically"
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        "(intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically."
      ],
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          "text": "The pools in general are bedded with black mud, and creamed over with oily flakes which may proceed from the tar on the vessels' sides, and may also from \"decomposing animal matter,\" as we euphemise it now-a-days.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To describe in euphemistic terms."
      ],
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        [
          "describe",
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        "(transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "euphemise"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically",
      "word": "euphemisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to describe in euphemistic terms",
      "word": "schönreden"
    }
  ],
  "word": "euphemize"
}