adverbise
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Verb[edit]
adverbise (third-person singular simple present adverbises, present participle adverbising, simple past and past participle adverbised)
- (transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not, or had not been an adverb (especially an adjective) as if it were an adverb.
- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3
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- a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language, in New York Times, pSM3