verbalize

English

Alternative forms

• verbalise

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French verbaliser.

Verb

verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbaliz, present participle ing, simple past and past participle verbalized)

1. (transitive) 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. (transitive, grammar) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb.

Translations

to express

• Catalan: verbalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: ilmaista (fi), ilmaista sanoin, verbaalistaa
• Galician: verbalizar
• German: verbalisieren (de)
• Greek: αποδίδω φραστικά (apodído frastiká)
• Hungarian: szavakba önt, kifejez (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingue:
• Polish: werbalizować
• Portuguese: verbalizar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: izraziti riječima pf, orječiti pf
• Spanish: verbalizar (es)
• Swedish: uttrycka i ord, verbalisera

to adapt as a verb

• Catalan: verbalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: verbaalistaa, muuttaa verbiksi
• Galician: verbalizar
• Greek: ρηματοποιώ (rimatopoió)
• Interlingue:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: verbalizar (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: oglagoliti pf
• Spanish: verbalizar (es)
• Swedish: förvandla till verb

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Portuguese

Verb

verbalize