Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To express or insert as a parenthesis; place within parentheses.
  • To interlard with parentheses.
  • To curve; make into the shape of the mark called a parenthesis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To place text in parentheses.

Etymologies

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parenthesis +‎ -ize

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Examples

  • Valerie (Plame) (Wilson) -- who can be sure which name to parenthesize -- is said to be getting $2.5 million for a memoir of her life as a CIA analyst, demonstrating that the leaking of her name is the best thing that ever happened to her career.

    Philip Weiss: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, I Mean Valerie (Plame) 2008

  • Before I'm done, I also intend (for those listees of mine also listed by Karlan, Lazar, and Salter) to parenthesize their rankings of each overlapped listee.

    Office Coming Along; 101MIPWNL Updates; TV Streaming; GooTube; Spike Lee Movie; Dilbert Creator Fixes Own Brain KaneCitizen 2006

  • Before I'm done, I also intend (for those listees of mine also listed by Karlan, Lazar, and Salter) to parenthesize their rankings of each overlapped listee.

    Archive 2006-10-01 KaneCitizen 2006

  • My Arabic sucks, but I can parenthesize, the only thing that sucks worse than my Arabic is my Yoruba.

    languagehat.com: Q.PHEEVR ON 'BUTTERFLY.' 2005

  • It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • A criticism, shallow in human nature, however deep in Campbell's Rhetoric, has blamed him for making persons, under great excitement of sorrow, or whatever other emotion, parenthesize some trifling play upon words in the very height of their passion.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • It is well to parenthesize here, that of the fatal accidents in the Sperm-Whale Fishery, this kind is perhaps almost as frequent as any.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • What other experience can parenthesize and synthesize the thrills, travails and titillation of our childhood and adolescent summers?

    Catapult Magazine Bruce Soderholm 2010

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