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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERB'ALIZE, v.t. To convert into a verb.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: be verbose; "This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious" [syn: verbalize, verbalise]
2: express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]
3: articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" [syn: express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to]
4: convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized" [syn: verbalize, verbalise]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1609 intransitive verb 1. to speak or write verbosely 2. to express something in words transitive verb 1. to convert into a verb 2. to name or express in words • verbalization noun • verbalizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (also -ise) 1 tr. express in words. 2 intr. be verbose. 3 tr. make (a noun etc.) into a verb. Derivatives: verbalizable adj. verbalization n. verbalizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Verbalize Ver"bal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Verbalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Verbalizing.] [Cf. F. verbaliser.] To convert into a verb; to verbify.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Verbalize Ver"bal*ize, v. i. To be verbose.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(verbalizes, verbalizing, verbalized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'verbalise' If you verbalize your feelings, thoughts, or ideas, you express them in words. (FORMAL) ...his inability to verbalize his feelings. VERB: V n, also V

Moby Thesaurus

air, articulate, breathe, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, couch in terms, deliver, disclose, emit, enunciate, express, fling off, formulate, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, impart, let out, lip, out with, phonate, phrase, pour forth, present, pronounce, put forth, put in words, raise, say, set forth, sound, state, talk, tell, throw off, utter, vent, ventilate, vocalize, voice, whisper, word