tragicize

Verb

tragicize (third-person singular simple present tragicizes, present participle tragicizing, simple past and past participle tragicized)

1. (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!...1840, John Henry Newman, The Church of the Fathers, section VIII
2. (rare) To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.
   • I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.1972, Mohan Singh Uberoi, I Believe, page 19
   • Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized, like the Rosenbergs […].2009, Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, page 156