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elegance
elegant
elegiac
elegiac couplet
elegiac stanza
elegise
elegist
elegit
elegize
elegy
element
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elementary particle
elementary school
elements
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elegize

el·e·gize [ éllə jz ] (past and past participle el·e·gized, present participle el·e·giz·ing, 3rd person present singular el·e·giz·es)


verb 
Definition:
 
1. transitive and intransitive verb commemorate somebody or something sorrowfully: to write or speak about somebody or something in a mournful sorrowful way
He elegized his lost comrade.

2. intransitive verb write or deliver an elegy: to write, read, or recite an elegy

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