rhapsodize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something). British,English,Oxford,US,intransitive
    — The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.
  2. To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
    — “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”
  3. To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody. British,English,Oxford,US,transitive
    — The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]
  4. To perform a rhapsody. British,English,Oxford,US,intransitive
    — […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.

词形变化

rhapsodizes present,singular,third-person rhapsodizing participle,present rhapsodized participle,past rhapsodized past rhapsodise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
rhapsodization rhapsodizer

词源

Etymology tree
English rhapsody
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English rhapsodize
From rhapsody + -ize.
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