Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To express in words.
- transitive v. Grammar To convert to use as a verb: verbalized the noun contact.
- intransitive v. To express oneself in words.
- intransitive v. To be verbose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To speak or to use words to express.
- v. To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To convert into a verb; to verbify.
- transitive v. To express in words.
- intransitive v. To be verbose.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. convert into a verb
- v. express in speech
- v. be verbose
- v. articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is fabulous to see you verbalize from the heart and your clarity on this significant subject can be easily seen.
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"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.
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Whether or not they can "verbalize" is of little consequence to them.
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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.
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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.
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Habit 3: Selling past the close--the irresistible urge to verbalize and execute every possible step in the sales process.
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Celeste will verbalize the need for nurturing and support in her close relationships.
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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.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar
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My guess is that if anything, Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do.
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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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