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    POETIZE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Compose verses or put into verseplay

    Example:

    He versified the ancient saga

    Synonyms:

    poetise; poetize; verse; versify

    Classified under:

    Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

    Hypernyms (to "poetize" is one way to...):

    compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

    Domain category:

    poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poetize"):

    metrify (compose in poetic meter)

    spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

    elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

    sonnet (compose a sonnet)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

    poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

    poetizer (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

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