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Is there such a verb as this?

Can I say "metaphorize" as a verb from the word "metaphor"? To mean "make a metaphor out of". Like in this sentence "The poet *metaphorizes* music as an "artful master".....

(meaning that he uses a metaphor to symbolise music with an artful master)

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    Good try, honestly, but no.

    The only way you could say what you're trying to say would be to say, "The poet uses a metaphor to describe music as..."

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