literalize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make literal
    literalise.
    • literalize metaphors

WordNet

Lit"er*al*ize transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Literalized ; present participle & verbal noun Literalizing
Definitions
  1. To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.

Webster 1913