verbalize

• verbalise

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈvəːbəlʌɪz/

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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.

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

• verbalization

(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

verbalize

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

verbalize

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