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personify collapse: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"

personalize collapse: make personal or more personal; "personalized service"

symbolize collapse: represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols; "The poet symbolizes love in this poem"; "These painters believed that artists should symbolize"

compare collapse: examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"; consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"; to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb; be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

weigh collapse: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind"; determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken"; have a certain weight

relate collapse: give an account of; "The witness related the events"; have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"; be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations related?"

confront collapse: deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"; present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us"; oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other"; be face to face with; "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume"

contrast collapse: the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to", "by contrast"; put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"; to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"

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