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VERSIFY (versified)

Dictionary entry overview: What does versify mean?

• VERSIFY (verb)
The verb VERSIFY has 1 sense:

1. compose verses or put into verse

Familiarity information: VERSIFY used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• VERSIFY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Compose verses or put into verse

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

poetise; poetize; verse; versify

Context example:

He versified the ancient saga

Hypernyms (to "versify" is one way to...):

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "versify"):

metrify (compose in poetic meter)

spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

sonnet (compose a sonnet)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he versify his major works over a short period of time?

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