verbalize

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈvəːbəlʌɪz/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb[edit]

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.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

verbalize

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

Portuguese[edit]

Verb[edit]

verbalize

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