essentialize (English, verb)
expansion: essentialize (third-person singular simple present essentializes, present participle essentializing, simple past and past participle essentialized)
Senses:
glosses: To reduce (something) to its essence.
tags: transitive
glosses: To misrepresent (something) by oversimplifying a summary of its essence.
tags: transitive
glosses: To misrepresent (a characteristic of something) by falsely portraying it as essential to the whole (that is, implying that it defines the whole's essence).
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: essentializes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: essentializing
tags: participle
present
form: essentialized
tags: participle
past
form: essentialized
tags: past