tragicize

/ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

Etymology

From tragic + -ize.

tragicize means To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

verb

To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.“How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.”
To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.“I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.”