verbify

American

[vur-buh-fahy] / ˈvɜr bəˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

verbified, verbifying

to change into or employ as a verb, as a noun.

verbify British

/ ˈvɜːbɪˌfaɪ /

verb

another word for verbalize verbalize

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Other Word Forms

verbification

noun

Etymology

Origin of verbify

First recorded in 1805–15; verb + -ify

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verbify verbifying

Not only does it confuse customers, it just doesn’t verbify well.

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2019

Just as we can verbify the idea of a quality in such cases as “reddens,” so we can represent a quality or an action to ourselves as a thing.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

The proscription against verbifying proper nouns, to say nothing of lowercasing them, was finally and irrevocably crushed under the inarguable fact that we all spend too much of our lives googling things.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

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