Definition of "allegorize" [al•le•go•rize]

• To express as or in the form of an allegory: a story of barnyard animals that allegorizes the fate of Soviet socialism. (verb-transitive)
• To interpret allegorically: allegorize the quest for the Holy Grail as an inner spiritual search. (verb-transitive)
• To use or make allegory: sculptors who rendered the moral world by allegorizing. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Augustine's "solution" to this problem was to allegorize the living daylights out of Genesis so it would support almost any theory."
• "Why else would Augustine go to such lengths to allegorize scripture?"
• "The political edge of the film really does not extend beyond this simplicity, and as such cuts very little within the development of the story but cuts more deeply just because it now seems like the default, expected option for people to lightly allegorize the situation in Iraq into the settings for genre cinema."