rhyming

Verb

rhyme (third-person singular simple present rhymes, present participle rhyming, simple past and past participle rhymed)

1. (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
   • Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
   • Now she's tainted by the syringe
     Try to rhyme a word with orange2009, Julian Casablancas, “Long Island Blues”, in Phrazes for the Young, Luxury Edition Deluxe Set bonus disc
3. (intransitive) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
   • Creation rhymes with integration and station.
4. (reciprocal) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
   • Mug and rug rhyme.
5. (intransitive, usually, text) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
   • I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
   • In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.2010, Tony Pipolo, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film

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