characterize
verb
, ˈka-rik-\
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Synonyms
character, define, depict, describe, portray, represent
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Afghanistan has been muddling along ever since, characterized by senior officers doing their best to manage an increasingly dire situation. — Donald C. Bolduc, Time, "I Served 10 Tours in Afghanistan. It’s Time for Us to Leave," 30 Aug. 2019 He was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a congenital disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs. — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, "Rob Mendez, Football Coach with No Limbs, Aims to Inspire in New Film: 'Focus on What You Can Do'," 28 Aug. 2019 Inside an Art Nouveau building, 13 apartments have been completely reimagined by Frenchman Pierre Emmanuel Dionnet, with each of the five floors characterized by a different creative influence. — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, "These 6 European Apartments Are Basically Private Design Hotels," 23 Aug. 2019 The El Niño-La Niña cycle, for instance — a natural climate cycle characterized by temporary shifts in Pacific Ocean temperatures — is known to have an effect on tornado season. — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, "Possible Links Between Warming and Tornadoes Are Still Murky," 22 Aug. 2019 Amid the punk and emerging New Wave scene of the late ’70s — characterized by spiky hair, clothespins, low-slung guitars and leather jackets, torn T-shirts and angry young men — the B-52s arrived to the party in seeming Technicolor. — Hector Saldana, ExpressNews.com, "How the B-52s impacted San Antonio’s music scene in the ’80s," 14 Aug. 2019 The savory journey continues through the finish, characterized by pleasantly sweet tobacco, plums, and balsamic herbs. — Rachel King, Fortune, "How to Drink Red Wine During the Hot, Hot Summer," 10 Aug. 2019 Doctors in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial center, had informed her that Beulah had been born with tibial hemimelia, a rare medical condition characterized by a missing or shortened tibia, or shinbone. — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, "This woman is helping disabled children walk for the first time," 9 Aug. 2019 El Nino is the climate phenomenon characterized by warmer than average sea temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. — Leigh Morgan, al, "El Nino is over, NOAA says," 8 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'characterize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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