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What does euphemize mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To utter one or more euphemisms; to speak euphemistically.
  2. (transitive) To describe in euphemistic terms.
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There seems to be some support here for the claim that the older group felt a greater need to euphemize in the two contexts in question.
Does literature euphemize the brute if indeterminate fact of founding violence, a process the Shakespearean text demystifies?
Like their Northern counterparts, the histories of African Americans and of slavery in Connecticut neglect and euphemize slavery after the enactment of gradual abolition.
Believe this effort to euphemize political malfeasance is overly generous.
It is, certainly, not only denizens of the left who theorize and euphemize their way out of inconvenient situations.
To call a restroom a lounge is to euphemize euphemism, to touch up the painting of the lily.

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