poeticize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.
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to write poetry about (an event, occasion, etc.).
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to put into poetry or make poetic
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(intr) to speak or write poetically
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Etymology
Origin of poeticize
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Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013
Nothing was too great or too small for Updike to poeticize.
From Time Magazine Archive
But what the fans seem to like as much as the social commentary is S. & G.'s whimsical ability to poeticize about the commonplace.
From Time Magazine Archive
When we are young we adore and poeticize those with whom we are in love: love and happiness with us are synonyms.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance
I had written a soliloquy that I would describe as an operatic soliloquy; it was poeticized and emotional.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Monarchs coming to power in the centuries preceding mass media could be mythologized and poeticized because myths and poems were the chief cultural material around.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
Like Bragg, Barnett relayed in a poeticized vernacular her perplexed and acute socio-personal anecdotes and observations, in regionally accented banter, over tactile, punky guitar—post-Clash in his case, post–Nirvana-Breeders–Liz Phair in hers.
From Slate ● May 18, 2018
When they were still mostly men, White poeticized:
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2014
Love is usually poeticized, decorated with roses, nightingales; we Russians decorate our loves with these momentous questions, and select the most uninteresting of them, too.
From The Wife, and other stories by Garnett, Constance
Unpretentious poeticizing about many of the same urban and exurban complaints that Simon & Garfunkel used to adjudicate so well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Temperamentally Marshall had nothing in common with the gaudy, poeticizing, rich, vain, bombastic, blasphemous fire eater.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Pulitzer Prize has never come his way, but Poet Auslander has been poeticizing for years, is much better known than his newcomer wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has relinquished a shapely, abrasive precision of language for mistily inflated poeticizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages.
From Time Magazine Archive
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