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/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/ · verb
(obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style..
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.
I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.
Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized, like the Rosenbergs […].
Use tragicize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tragicize means (obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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