Nah, its most often used to stress the metaphor the it precedes.
The weather today was a vertiable hurricane.
We lost the game in what was a vertiable massacre.
But if the "free dictionary" is your source, then... ok.
Would you prefer Merriam-Webster? I hear they're changing the definition of 'racism' b/c some 20 y/o black woman complained.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verifiable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veritable
also vertiable as you've typed twice now is not a word. :)
yeah, i mistyped, but from your MW link directly...
often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor
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so "hurricane" is a metaphor?
"often used" is not the exclusive use...
christ man think
I agree that by the textbook definition it could be used in the way you are attempting to use it, but...
Not once in literature or conversation have I ever seen/heard that word used to imply something is exactly the words that comes after it. Example?
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