verbalize

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• verbalise

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to verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbalizes, present participle verbalizing, simple past and past participle verbalized)

1. To speak or to use words to express.

   Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.

2. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.