Metaphorical: alternatives and connections

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figurativel…

Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.

The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severit…

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat.

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brightness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.

To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.

a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., ‘he is a snake’ may once have been a m…

That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.

Not literal; figurative.

To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative…