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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To impart an emotional quality to.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render emotional; infect with emotional excitement; regard as a mere matter of emotion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To give an emotional character to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To give something an emotional quality.
  • verb To make an emotional display.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

emotional +‎ -ize

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