poeticize

American  

[poh-et-uh-sahyz] / poʊˈɛt əˌsaɪz /

especially British, poeticise

verb (used with object)

poeticized, poeticizing

1. to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.

2. to write poetry about (an event, occasion, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

poeticized, poeticizing

1. to speak or write poetry.

poeticize British  

/ pəʊˈɛtɪˌsaɪz, ˈpəʊɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to put into poetry or make poetic

2. (intr) to speak or write poetically

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Other Word Forms

• overpoeticize verb
• unpoeticized adjective

Etymology

Origin of poeticize

First recorded in 1795–1805; poetic + -ize

Example Sentences

“When I first started writing it, I tried to lay out a manifesto of what I wanted to at least attempt to do,” Gorman says, “which is to try to poeticize the experience of the last two and a half years — the pandemic and everything else in the world that manifests.”

From Los Angeles Times

What most of these people do is read a literal translation by an expert Assyriologist and then “poeticize” it, pushing it up into verse.

From The New Yorker

Santo Loquasto's set doesn't poeticize the ambience.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s all building up to the two scenes of the movie, the ones that will contextualize and poeticize everything that came before it.

From Washington Times

While a number of her contemporaries poeticize the desire to feel free in wanting, twigs’ constantly warped vocals mark her as a flawed omnipresence.

From Time