verbalize
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal + -ize.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvəːbəlʌɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbalizes, present participle verbalizing, simple past and past participle verbalized)
- (transitive) To speak or to use words to express.
- Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.
- (transitive, grammar) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb.
Derived terms
Translations
to express
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to adapt as a verb
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See also
- (converting into or using as another part of speech:)
- adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify
- adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize
- nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, (very rare) substantive
- verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify
References
- ^ “verbalize, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Galician
Verb
verbalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of verbalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
verbalize
- inflection of verbalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative