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Verb: metrify  'me-tru`fI
  1. Compose in poetic meter
    "The bard metrified his poems very precisely"
     
  2. Convert from a non-metric to the metric system
    - metricize, metricise [Brit], metricate

Derived forms: metrified, metrifies, metrifying

See also: metrification

Type of: change over, convert, poetise [Brit], poetize, verse, versify

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