VERSIFY (versified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they versify    ... he / she / it versifies   
Past simple: versified   
Past participle: versified   
-ing form: versifying   

Sense 1

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?

Derivation:

verse (a piece of poetry)

verse (a line of metrical text)

verse (literature in metrical form)

versification (the art or practice of writing verse)

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

versification (a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text))

versifier (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))