tragicize

动词 v.
/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style. obsolete,rare
    — How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.
  2. To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic. rare
    — I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.

词形变化

tragicizes present,singular,third-person tragicizing participle,present tragicized participle,past tragicized past

词源

From tragic + -ize.
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