POETIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 "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)

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))