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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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