nominalize
verb (used with object)
to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
nominalized
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past participleof nominalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof nominalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
nominalizeverb (used with object)to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.
Example Sentences
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It may still be nominalized; inikwihl’minih’isit-’i means “the former small fires in the house, the little fires that were once burning in the house.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
It may be definitely nominalized or verbalized by the affixing of elements that are exclusively nominal or verbal in force.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
