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lyricise

lyricise is the alternative form of lyricize.

Meaning of lyricize

Verb

lyricize (third-person singular simple present lyricizes, present participle lyricizing, simple past and past participle lyricized)

  1. (transitive) To make lyrical; to treat in a poetically sentimental or emotional manner.
  2. (transitive) To provide lyrics for (an existing melody).
    • Three numbers were taken from “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim,” a 1947 Betty Grable movie whose musical score consisted of posthumously lyricized George Gershwin tunes.2009 May 11, Stephen Holden, “The Gershwin Brother Who Treasured His Dictionary”, in New York Times

Forms of lyricise

third-person singular presentlyricises
present participlelyricising
past participlelyricised
pastlyricised

Questions about lyricise

What is lyricise the alternative form of?
Lyricise is the alternative form of lyricize.

Words near lyricise in the dictionary

  1. lyricality
  2. lyrically
  3. lyricalness
  4. lyrichord
  5. lyrichords
  6. lyricise
  7. lyricised
  8. lyricises
  9. lyricising
  10. lyricism
  11. lyricisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lyricise (page history and authors); lyricize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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