1. to write or speak about someone or something in a mournful or regretful way; to compose an elegy for
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is 'elegizes'; third person singular present tense

Examples

• The poet elegises the loss of her childhood home in the final stanza.
• He elegises the golden age of cinema in his recent essay.
• She elegises fallen soldiers with profound respect and emotion.
• The author elegises a vanished way of life throughout the novel.
• They elegise the old theater that was demolished last year.
• The musician elegises lost love in every melancholic verse.