verbalize

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal +‎ -ize.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbalizes, present participle verbalizing, simple past and past participle verbalized)

  1. (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.
  3. (transitive, grammar) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb.

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See also

(converting into or using as another part of speech:)

References

  1. ^ “verbalize, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Galician

Verb

verbalize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of verbalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

verbalize

  1. inflection of verbalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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