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Verb (identifies, identifying, identified)
1. Establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is.
It is understood the delay lies in formally identifying the remains.
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2. Recognize or distinguish (especially something considered worthy of attention)
Because of the problems in identifying the infection early, the disease spread.
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3. (identify as) Assign (a particular characteristic or categorization) to oneself; describe oneself as belonging to (a particular category or group)
she identifies as a feminist
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4. (identify someone/something with) Associate someone or something closely with; regard as having strong links with.
There is also a strong tendency to identify the court with absolute rule.
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5. Equate (someone or something) with.
Baudelaire identified the modern with the Now and, if not quite co-extensively then relatedly, with the New.
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6. (identify with) Regard oneself as sharing the same characteristics or thinking as someone else.
I liked Fromm and identified with him
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Origin
1. Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘treat as being identical with’): from medieval Latin identificare, from late Latin identitas (see identity) + Latin -ficare (from facere ‘make’).
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