"euphuize" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "euphuizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "euphuize (third-person singular simple present euphuizes, present participle euphuizing, simple past and past participle euphuized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly:",
          "text": "It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ],
        [
          "excessive",
          "excessive"
        ],
        [
          "refinement",
          "refinement"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "overnice",
          "overnice"
        ],
        [
          "expression",
          "expression"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "euphuism"
        },
        {
          "word": "euphuistic"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "euphuize"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "euphuizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "euphuized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "euphuism"
    },
    {
      "word": "euphuistic"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1894, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly:",
          "text": "It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression."
      ],
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        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ],
        [
          "excessive",
          "excessive"
        ],
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          "refinement",
          "refinement"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "overnice",
          "overnice"
        ],
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        ]
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  "word": "euphuize"
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