intellectualize AmE
intellectualise BrE

It was more a gut feeling than something he could intellectualize.

The trend to intellectualize early education is a dangerous one.

He can intellectualize a potentially bad situation and turn it into the lesson for the day.

My way of dealing with what happened was by intellectualizing it and doing this research."

"I had intellectualized what cancer was about," he said.

He wondered if he was trying too hard to intellectualize this experience.

There is plenty of time for that sort of intellectualizing.

I knew enough about the situation to realize the issue was an emotional one, but that didn't stop me from trying to intellectualize it.

One colleague suggested that it's too complicated and overly intellectualized.

I realized he was intellectualizing something that, in my mind, was a spiritual thing.

Peasants around the world know that if you intellectualize too much, it's bad for your mental health."

I intellectualized things to get through: "Play the game; you get to run track."

I read it, and I didn't have the time to intellectualize career choices.

You know, I have decided that I intellectualize too much.

"We are intellectualizing the space more," he said.

We don't even have to intellectualize - which is good for both of us, we're both similar that way.

"They're both young actors who came from the school of working from the gut and not trying to intellectualize everything."

When I start to intellectualize and say, 'Well, this all makes sense.

When under stress, Rationals may intellectualize or repress their feelings.

His treatment of human relations, particularly between the sexes, strikes audiences today as arch and intellectualized.

He said they would "intellectualize" his experience with rules and formalities and never be able to understand.

In the jungle, a threatened entity did not pause to intellectualize his predicament.

To see shapes and forms is to intellectualize.

"Don't intellectualize," he tells me; "simply give yourself up to the physical experience.

Southerners don't see a lot of sense in intellectualizing something like this a whole lot.