tropologize

from The Century Dictionary.

• To use in a tropological sense, as a word; change to a figurative sense; use as a trope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make a trope of.