Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To express in words.
- v. Grammar To convert to use as a verb: verbalized the noun contact.
- v. To express oneself in words.
- v. To be verbose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To convert into a verb. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., viii.
- To use many words; be verbose or diffuse.
- Also spelled verbalise.
Wiktionary
- v. To speak or to use words to express.
- v. grammar To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To convert into a verb; to verbify.
- v. To express in words.
- v. To be verbose.
WordNet 3.0
- v. convert into a verb
- v. express in speech
- v. be verbose
- v. articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
Examples
“It is fabulous to see you verbalize from the heart and your clarity on this significant subject can be easily seen.”
“I never get involved, but I have to 'verbalize' that I will be deleting Daniels Reeves e-mails," one member wrote to the group, a motion that another writer seconded.”
“Whether or not they can "verbalize" is of little consequence to them.”
“People just want to 'verbalize' how wonderful JC would run a system that's ALREADY running well WITHOUT HIM, because that's all they have left and it makes them fell good.”
“I've never even come in contact with a moraine, let alone used it in a sentence and, no, you can't "verbalize" this noun by saying, "I was morained on an island, but luckily I had my top five favorite things: Dove chocolate squares, flip flops (my children have begged me to stop saying thongs), iced tea, poetry by Mary Oliver, and Johnny Depp.”
“Habit 3: Selling past the close--the irresistible urge to verbalize and execute every possible step in the sales process.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Goldsmith: When Service Turns to Sales
“Celeste will verbalize the need for nurturing and support in her close relationships.”
“When Emily discovers that actually touching things (like snow) helps her to verbalize what she is seeing, I think for a moment we're going to explore this and gain a powerful metaphor for handling words and physically grasping the world around us.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar
“My guess is that if anything, Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do.”
“Evaluations like these also shed light on topics that students may not verbalize in therapy, such as a lack of trust, or bonding, with their therapist.”
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