characterize
/ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪz/ verb B1- To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).
- To be typical of.
- To determine the characteristics of.
He/she/it characterizes · Past characterized · Past participle characterized · -ing form characterizing
Verb forms
- Base form
- characterize
- He/she/it
- characterizes
- Past
- characterized
- Past participle
- characterized
- -ing form
- characterizing
From the library
For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.
Noirtier left the room when he had finished, with the same calmness that had characterized him during the whole of this remarkable and trying conversation.
The son, on the other hand, had dropped all that jaunty, dashing style which had characterized him, and the ferocity of a dangerous wild beast gleamed in his dark eyes and distorted his handsome features.
But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterize her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself, and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded.
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