verbalize
verb (used with object)
to express in words.
verbalized
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past participleof verbalize.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 verbalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
verbalizeverb (used with object)to express in words.
Example Sentences
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The ensemble feels like a real, fractured unit that shares unspoken arrangements and lifelong knowledge of one another that doesn’t need to be verbalized to be understood.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
And it is, of course, odd that they verbalized these fears by simply importing wholesale a hacky discourse from the U.S.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025
In “Happiness Falls,” she makes it clear that joy needn’t always be verbalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023
She refuses to believe her father can find happiness with anyone other than her mother and has verbalized this to others.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
Sabbatini bent over his SmartDraw pad and sketched out a molecular structure that described the chemical reaction Nicole had just verbalized.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
