tragicize

verb2

1. •
   (rare) To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.

   • I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized. — 1972
2. •
   (no longer used, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.