Usually means: Inserting parentheses to clarify expression.
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  1. parenthesize: Merriam-Webster
  2. parenthesize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parenthesize: Collins English Dictionary
  4. parenthesize: Wordnik
  5. parenthesize: Wiktionary
  6. parenthesize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. parenthesize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. parenthesize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Parenthesize, parenthesize: Dictionary.com
  10. Parenthesize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. parenthesize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Parenthesize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. parenthesize: FreeDictionary.org
  14. parenthesize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parenthesize: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (parenthesize)

▸ verb:  To place text in parentheses.
▸ verb:  To interject.

Similar:
bracket, interpunctuate, square-bracket, backquote, punctuate, paragraphize, point, box in, double-quote, embed, more...

Opposite:
deparenthesize, unparenthesize, ungroup

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Similar:
bracket, interpunctuate, square-bracket, backquote, punctuate, paragraphize, point, box in, double-quote, embed, more...

Opposite:
deparenthesize, unparenthesize, ungroup



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