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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
euphemize .
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Examples
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The cinematography "euphemized" the gore so that it was tolerable for me.
Sound Off: Hughes Brothers' The Book of Eli - Your Thoughts? « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Actual terrorists, on the other hand, are still euphemized as militants and freedom-fighters.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Thus it can be euphemized as a defensive response to save our civilian lives.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Targets that are likely to lead to extensive civilian casualties are euphemized frequently as attacks on “economic infrastructure.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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Targets that are likely to lead to extensive civilian casualties are euphemized frequently as attacks on “economic infrastructure.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The Obama fiscal policy since 2009 has been to explode the U.S. balance sheet with ever-greater spending financed by monetary reflation—which the President in his speech euphemized as "emergency steps."
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Oh, and I missed this: The courageous reporters of the social-democratic paper had gotten hold of a secret Nazi Party plan for the disposition of the Jews that first used what was to become the widespread euphemism for extermination: “Final Solution” (Endlössung), a word that left little doubt over the mass murder it euphemized.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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Actual terrorists, on the other hand, are still euphemized as militants and freedom-fighters.
News and Comments 2009
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The courageous reporters of the social-democratic paper had gotten hold of a secret Nazi Party plan for the disposition of the Jews that first used what was to become the widespread euphemism for extermination: “Final Solution” (Endlössung), a word that left little doubt over the mass murder it euphemized.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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Thus it can be euphemized as a defensive response to save our civilian lives.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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