tragedizev.
/ˈtradʒᵻdʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈtrædʒəˌdaɪz/ 1.
a. transitive. To write or perform (a play, scene, character, etc.) in a tragic style or manner; to treat or dramatize in tragic form. Also (now chiefly): to treat (a situation, event, etc.) as a tragedy; to make (something) appear tragic, esp. by exaggerating its negative aspects.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > have befallen as a misfortune to [verb (transitive)] > bring disaster upon
doa1375
pluckc1475
ruin1558
tragedize1593
disaster1596
planet-strike1600
to bring to grief1850
to do in1905
to wreak havoc1926
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > a drama > a tragedy
tragedize1593
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [verb (transitive)] > dramatize > tragedy
tragedize1733
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 26v Like tragick Seneca, I should tragedize my selfe, by bleeding to death in the depth of passion.
1733 E. Phillips Stage-mutineers i. 11 Full well I know, to tragedize a Scene.
1734 Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 1/3 As woeful a tragedy as ever was tragedized on the British stage.
1754 D. Garrick Let. 31 July (1831) I. 57 Not like those paltry blasts of art employed in raising storms in a tea-cup, such as tragedizing trivial or even ludicrous situations.
1770 F. Gentleman Dramatic Censor I. 394 Mr. Wignel tragedized Snarl so laughably, that..it becomes matter of great doubt, whether he was not the most comical personage of the drama.
1811 Brit. Press 19 Aug. The Comedy of Errors, tragedized.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 736 This assuredly not less tragical tragedy than any that ever was tragedized by a company of tragedians.
1914 Life 2 July 115/3 Should a fellow court Despair Or tragedize his life unduly?
1988 New Yorker 26 Sept. 83/1 Like the book, it was criticized for ‘tragedizing’ the threat to the environment.
2010 M. Metta Writing Against, Alongside & Beyond Memory ii. 113 What I have discovered in writing her life, is an emerging resistance to the temptation to tragedise her life.
b. intransitive. To perform in a tragedy; to perform as a tragedian. Also: to speak, write, or behave in a tragic style or manner. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > use lofty or grandiloquent style
tragedize1755
tragicize1840
rotundify1841
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act in specific manner
misact1609
tragedize1755
overact1760
overplay1767
to walk through ——1824
underact1847
to play down to ——1880
routine1897
underplay1897
milk1921
ham1933
hoke1935
to camp it up1957
to play for laughs (also a laugh)1963
undercharacterize1970
1755 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 498/2 He commenced manager, and his company tragedized in a place called Petticoat-lane.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 105 If we do spend this money we can..tragedize for more.
1803 European Mag. Nov. 339/1 As Shuter undertook the part with great reluctance, he, it appears, resolved not to be speedily called upon to tragedize again.
1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers II. xiii. 14 Oh air and Oh virtue!—for I will tragedise a little! [tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Ep. v, More tragico exclamabo].
1939 S. M. Rosenfeld Strolling Players i. 27 She was tragedising as Pyrrhus in The Distress'd Mother.
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1623 [see tragedized adj. at Derivatives].
1649 R. Baron Apol. for Paris 80 Bacchus, whose mother Semele her rage had already tragedized.
Derivatives
ˈtragedized adj.
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Tragidized, killed.
1834 Age 23 Nov. 375/2 The first entertainment of the evening will then commence—it will be a tragedized version of the comedy, All in the Wrong.
2011 Mod. Philol. Aug. 41 The audience's violent reaction to the tragedized death of the British spy Major André.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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