verbalize

English

Alternative forms

• verbalise

Verb

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.

Translations

to express

• Hungarian: szavakba önt (hu), kifejez (hu)

• Portuguese: verbalizar (pt)

to adapt as a verb

• Portuguese: verbalizar (pt)

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Portuguese

Verb

verbalize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verbalizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verbalizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verbalizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verbalizar