Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb Music To write or sing lyrics.
  • intransitive verb To write lyrically or in a lyric style.
  • intransitive verb To treat (something) lyrically; put into lyric style.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To write lyrics or write lyrically.

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Examples

  • They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.

    Larissa Archer: On Not Marrying Larissa Archer 2011

  • They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.

    Larissa Archer: On Not Marrying Larissa Archer 2011

  • They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.

    Larissa Archer: On Not Marrying Larissa Archer 2011

  • They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.

    Larissa Archer: On Not Marrying Larissa Archer 2011

  • They close their eyes and lyricize about the near-spiritual satisfaction they get from communing with the various twigs and animal parts and different-colored dust they flavor stuff with.

    Larissa Archer: On Not Marrying Larissa Archer 2011

  • What comfort is it to the relatives of the Sabra and Shatila victims, you might ask, that a few conscripts who stood by and did nothing are now free to articulate, and even to lyricize, their internal pain?

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • What comfort is it to the relatives of the Sabra and Shatila victims, you might ask, that a few conscripts who stood by and did nothing are now free to articulate, and even to lyricize, their internal pain?

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • What comfort is it to the relatives of the Sabra and Shatila victims, you might ask, that a few conscripts who stood by and did nothing are now free to articulate, and even to lyricize, their internal pain?

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • As the 88-year-old jazz great Jon Hendricks, perhaps the greatest Vocalese master of all once put it: "We do what librettists do for opera … we lyricize all the musical action that's going on."

    PegasusNews.com stories 2009

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