euphemize
Verb
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Verb
euphemize (euphemizes, present participle euphemizing; past and past participle euphemized)
- (intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
- 1999, A. J. Meier, "When Is a Woman a Lady?" American Speech, vol. 74, no. 1, p. 63:
- 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.
- 1999, A. J. Meier, "When Is a Woman a Lady?" American Speech, vol. 74, no. 1, p. 63:
- (transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms.
- German: euphemisieren
- German: schönreden
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