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stylize
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styl·ize  (stlz)
tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es
1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style.
2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize.

styli·zation (stl-zshn) n.
stylizer n.

stylize, stylise [ˈstaɪlaɪz]
vb
(tr) to give a conventional or established stylistic form to
stylization , stylisation n
stylizer , styliser n
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Verb1.stylize - represent according to a conventional style; "a stylized female head"
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl"
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Director Bartkowiak pays tribute to Doom's pixellated origins by stylising one of the climactic action sequences like the game: first-person perspective, a computer generated gun swaying at the bottom of the screen as various slobbering nasties come haring out of the darkness.
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