verb
- Be characteristic of.
- usage: "What characterizes a Venetian painting"
- synonyms: characterize, characterise
- Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of.
- usage: "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
- synonyms: qualify, characterize, characterise
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