rhapsodize

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  1. intransitive verb To express oneself in an immoderately enthusiastic manner.
  2. transitive verb To recite (something) in the manner of a rhapsody.

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  • For all those reasons and more, it's the kind of story reviewers rhapsodize over. —  Advocate.com Daily News
  • (And don't worry about the five-words thing, of course, if you feel inspired to rhapsodize at further length.) —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • We rhapsodize over a game where the pitcher is a "complete" player, but only care about it when arguing theoretically. —  Baseball Analysts
  • The Express - For every film that qualifies as serious sports biography, another is made that tends to rhapsodize a real person. —  James Sanford At The Movies - MLive.com
  • Shopsin does not rhapsodize about food, but he is devoted to it.
 

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/ˈræpsədaɪz/
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