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poetize

[ poh-i-tahyz ]

verb (used without object)

, po·et·ized, po·et·iz·ing.
  1. to write poetry.


verb (used with object)

, po·et·ized, po·et·iz·ing.
  1. to express poetically:

    to poetize a story.

  2. to make or treat as poetic; poeticize:

    to poetize reality.

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Other Words From

  • poet·izer noun
  • un·poet·ized adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of poetize1

First recorded in 1575–85; poet + -ize
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Example Sentences

Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?

And while the terrorists do sing and poetize in a mode similar to that of the other characters, they don’t come across exactly as humanized, or even as human.

Cousin Edith poetized upon the romance of the past; Jasmine counted two hundred and nine paper bags.

But for Maeterlinck to poetize the fact as a "nuptial flight" seemed to the man of science not only untruth to nature, but a blasphemy against the sacred love of man and woman.

My mother tells in her diary how in that summer of the birthday meeting, the two men roamed the country together, poetizing, botanizing, geologizing.

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