melodize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) to provide with a melody
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(tr) to make melodious
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(intr) to sing or play melodies
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Etymology
Origin of melodize
Example Sentences
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Can any one say, after hearing this "Canzonetta sull' aria," that it is unnatural to melodize conversation?
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
He only is a painter who can melodize and harmonize hue—if he fail in this, he is no member of the brotherhood.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
First as music, as a hook, as a melodized lyric that qualifies as catchy despite its peculiarity.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2021
He sings in a paint-flat baritone that feels forthright, like melodized speech, but the pace and construction of his lyrics should make us wonder about what isn’t being said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2019
As the photographs proceeded, Aziz Tamoyan, a Yazidi mourner from Armenia, began a traditional melodized speech known as a kilamê ser—half song, half narrative story.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2016
This is not poetry, but it phrases a wish in a child's own way, to be melodized and fixed in a child's reverent and sensitive memory.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
Where a reader's feelings have been melodized by culture, they will protect him against the influence of a too artificial construction of the verse.
From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram
But for haunting Polish melodizing, and dance rhythms that capture a whole national style, try the two Mazurkas, Tracks 14 and 15.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
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