"verbalize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈvəːbəlʌɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-verbalize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: verbalizes [present, singular, third-person], verbalizing [participle, present], verbalized [participle, past], verbalized [past]
Etymology: Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal + -ize. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|verbaliser}} Middle French verbaliser, {{suffix|en|verbal|ize}} verbal + -ize Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive Translations (to express): изразявам с думи (izrazjavam s dumi) (Bulgarian), verbalitzar (Catalan), ilmaista (Finnish), ilmaista sanoin (Finnish), verbaalistaa (Finnish), verbalizar (Galician), verbalisieren (German), αποδίδω φραστικά (apodído frastiká) (Greek), szavakba önt (Hungarian), kifejez (Hungarian), werbalizować (Polish), verbalizar (Portuguese), izraziti riječima [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), orječiti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), verbalizar (Spanish), verbalisera (Swedish), sätta ord på (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-verbalize-en-verb-dTVSMxdA Disambiguation of 'to express': 100 0
  2. (transitive, grammar) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Grammar, Talking Translations (to adapt as a verb): verbalitzar (Catalan), verbaalistaa (Finnish), muuttaa verbiksi (Finnish), verbalizar (Galician), verbalisieren (German), ρηματοποιώ (rimatopoió) (Greek), verbalizar (Portuguese), oglagoliti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), verbalizar (Spanish), förvandla till verb (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-verbalize-en-verb-en:grammar Disambiguation of Talking: 15 85 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English links with manual fragments, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 23 77 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'to adapt as a verb': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: verbalise Derived forms: verbalization

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "verbaalistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "muuttaa verbiksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "verbalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "verbalisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "rimatopoió",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "ρηματοποιώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "verbalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "oglagoliti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "verbalizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to adapt as a verb",
      "word": "förvandla till verb"
    }
  ],
  "word": "verbalize"
}

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