Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To be or become melancholy; indulge in gloomy musings.
- To make melancholy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To become gloomy or dejected in mind.
- transitive verb To make melancholy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To make
melancholy . - verb obsolete, intransitive To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From melancholy + -ize, probably after French méancoliser.
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