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rhapsodize
Word definitions for rhapsodize in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhapsodize \Rhap"so*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rhapsodized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rhapsodizing .] To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody --Sterne.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ While rhapsodizing on the merits of free trade, Smith tripped into a huge nauseous pool of goop.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. recite a rhapsody [syn: rhapsodise ] say (something) with great enthusiasm [syn: rhapsodise ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context intransitive English) to show enthusiasm 2 (context intransitive English) to recite a rhapsody 3 (context transitive English) To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to show enthusiasm ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "to piece together;" 1806, "to talk rhapsodically;" see rhapsody + -ize . Related: Rhapsodized ; rhapsodizing .
Usage examples of rhapsodize.
Since when did he, a man in love with the sea, rhapsodize like a besotted fool about a young woman?
In a short story you do not have the room, and the reader does not have the time, to rhapsodize over multicolored sunsets on a planet that has six suns.
They rhapsodize that his amazing vignettes of dysfunctional families make him the Raymond Carver of hip-hop.
Lula Belle brushed her question aside as she rhapsodized about men and their foibles.
Eater plunged closer to Jupiter, it had rhapsodized about alien cultures it had visited, sending samples of outre art via the microwave high-bandwidth links.
Malsara showed no sign of having noticed any of this as he rhapsodized on.
Bob Martinez is still rhapsodizing about the electric chair, while Lawton Chiles has enlisted the sheriff of Sumter CountySumter County!
Needless to say, Barb went on to rhapsodize over how much dear little Scott Fleck had grown this past winter and didn't Sally agree that the boy deserved a tryout as pitcher for the Bobcats, too?
She was still nursing agrudge over the fact that she had wasted all those weeks going to LaMazeclasses, hearing a bunch of bimbos in Birkenstocks rhapsodize over becoming onewith the pain, only to wind up spread-eagled on this damn table, slit open likea tax refund, and stuck full of more diagnostic equipment than a Porsche gettinga tune-up.
Jane recalled how Kurt had always rhapsodized about the oak tree, how he'd gone on about fractals and gnarliness and self-organized criticality.
I've never rhapsodized about exercise and I'd avoid it if I could, but I notice the older I get, the more my body seems to soften, like butter left out at room temp.
Describing medieval England, Oastler rhapsodized about the lost golden age: "Oh, what a beautiful ship was England once!
But no matter how she rhapsodizes about you, I continue to feel strongly that you have no conventional, expected emotional interest in her.
I'm probably the only man alive who rhapsodizes about road base and Portland Cement.
Jame could hear his shrill voice rhapsodizing over something or someone as she and the guard furtively climbed the last flight of stairs.