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VERSIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: versified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compose verses or put into verse

Example:

He versified the ancient saga

Synonyms:

poetise; poetize; verse; versify

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "versify" 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 "versify"):

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

Sentence example:

Did he versify his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

verse (a piece of poetry)

verse (a line of metrical text)

verse (literature in metrical form)

versification (the art or practice of writing verse)

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

versification (a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text))

versifier (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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