literalize metaphors.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I wanted to literalize the sacrifices and headspace that Timas is in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

His writer voice is so big, I thought to literalize it is going to actually harm it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Character to Be Animated in Soderbergh’s Moneyball | /Film] Reference

Apparently certain concepts were beyond the capacity of the remarkable headbands to literalize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The circumstances of her birth oddly literalize the Oedipal crisis as experienced, according to psychoanalysis, by sons within patriarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_] Reference

I mean, I'm very aware of the fact that I personally am not who I was 20 or even 10 years ago, but he uses some SF to literalize this concept and explore it further.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Colony] Reference

That is ludacraous for (at least, it seems to me) that this is a way to literalize the text to the extreme...reducing man, text, "context"(historical) and science.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spontaneous Generation in the Bible?] Reference

If we literalize this principle of the teacher as the embodiment of perfection, we are in danger of blinding ourselves to the reality that most teachers are human, and therefore not perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dharma Quote of the Week: The Guru-Disciple Relationship] Reference

In science fiction, “science”—i.e., sentences displaying verbal emblems of scientific discourses—is used to literalize the meanings of other sentences for use in the construction of the fictional foreground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infinite Summer #7: Is ‘Infinite Jest’ Science Fiction? « Gerry Canavan] Reference

As a result, one can move from musical act to musical act, bedroom label to bedroom label, across a web of relationships that is simply and foremost a natural flowering of the sort that so-called social-network applications Friendster, etc., perhaps futilely, attempt to literalize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disquiet » Six Deep MP3s] Reference

That film has none of the lasciviousness with which Godard's camera eyes a young beauty taking a bath, in a scene that purports to literalize commercialism's intrusion upon privacy and sensuality a meter reader cheekily walks in as the girl is drying herself but actually documents only Godard's continuing fascination with the female form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

As Sonia Hofkosh states, in the moment that he buys his freedom, Equiano's history might also be seen to literalize the ethos of possessive individualism, exposing as it does so the double edge that defines the paradigm of the entrepeneurial subject: the self as owner depends on the principle that selves can be owned, freedom on the possibility of alienation, identity on difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire] Reference

Buvoli's works literalize, in varied media, this urgent appeal for velocity.    From Wordnik.com.  [artforum.com] Reference

Sculptures by Zoe Leonard and Pawel Althamer literalize the collision between man and nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference

My only problem with Kauffman is that he tends to literalize metaphors in a very facile, almost sophomoric way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bright Lights After Dark] Reference

And lastly, Peter didnt speak of a spiritualization of 2 Pt 3 as you claim which I cant understand why you spiritualize literal passages and literalize spiritual passages?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulpit Pimps] Reference

He refused to tolerate, as well, sundry vagrant imaginings which rose to cluster about and literalize the romance of her youth which Sister Soulsby had so frankly outlined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference

Above all, they literalize Coupland’s patented deadpan in a way that actually seems to refresh it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karina’s Capsule: The Gum Thief] Reference

But Barker’s genius is to be able to literalize this idea in three dimensions and still not lose that essential quality of the visionary in “the weird” that sustains it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testing the Weird] Reference

11 The destabilization of identity may be taken to literalize the impersonation inherent in literary writing; not merely the titles, but also the forms of Byronism insist that Clare's thematic explorations of social identity, literary value, and kinds of fame be addressed at the level of poetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like] Reference

Other words from the same root are, literally, illiteracy, literati, literature, literalize, literalist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference