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(obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style. / (rare) To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.

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tragicize

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Source Word

tragicize

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

Verb

obsolete rare

(obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style. / (rare) To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.

Japanese Meaning

（悲劇風に）語る・書く、または悲劇的な様式を採用すること。 / （誰かまたは何かを）悲劇に変える、すなわち悲劇化すること。

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The poet would often tragicize ordinary events, turning a small domestic quarrel into the stuff of epic sorrow.

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その詩人はしばしば日常的な出来事を悲劇のように語り、些細な家庭の口論さえも壮絶な悲しみの物語に変えてしまった。

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(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.

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