poeticize

[ poh-et-uh-sahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, po·et·i·cized, po·et·i·ciz·ing.

1. to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.
2. to write poetry about (an event, occasion, etc.).

verb (used without object)

, po·et·i·cized, po·et·i·ciz·ing.

1. to speak or write poetry.

poeticize

/ pəʊˈɛtɪˌsaɪz; ˈpəʊɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. tr to put into poetry or make poetic
2. intr to speak or write poetically

Other Words From

• over·po·eti·cize verb overpoeticized overpoeticizing
• unpo·eti·cized adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of poeticize¹

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

The enthusiasm for it has to represent the injustice the movie believes it’s aware of — against young murdered women, their suffering dysfunctional families and black torture victims we never see — but fails to sufficiently poeticize or dramatize what Mr. McDonagh is up to here: a search for grace that carries a whiff of American vandalism.

From New York 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