1. to convert into prose; to turn verse or poetic language into ordinary prose form
Usage: transitive verb; literary
2. to make dull, ordinary, or unimaginative; to strip of poetic or imaginative quality
Usage: transitive verb; informal

Examples

• The translator decided to prosify the ancient poem to make it more accessible to modern readers.
• Critics argued that the film adaptation would prosify the novel's lyrical beauty.
• She prosified the romantic verse into straightforward narrative prose.
• The committee's report prosified the artist's visionary statement into bureaucratic language.
• Don't prosify the magic of the original work by explaining every metaphor.
• The adaptation prosified Shakespeare's sonnets into simple dialogue.