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univerbize

univerbize verb: to cause, or to undergo univerbation.

Verb

univerbize (third-person singular simple present univerbizes, present participle univerbizing, simple past and past participle univerbized)

  1. (uncommon) To cause, or to undergo univerbation.
    • There are in fact fewer univerbized lexemes than the transformational analysis predicts.1986, Piotr Ruszkiewicz, “One some recent claims concerning derivational morphology”, in Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His...
    • K. Hegerová, KS, 21:102-08, reviews univerbizing, intellectualizing and colloquial trends in nouns for locations, e.g., chlebíčkáreň, inšpekčka.1987, James Naughton, “II. Slovak Studies. Language”, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 49, page 904 of 901–909
    Synonyms:
    univerbate

Synonyms of univerbize

Forms of univerbize

third-person singular presentuniverbizes
present participleuniverbizing
past participleuniverbized
pastuniverbized

Origin of univerbize

Back-formation from univerbation + -ize.

Words formed from univerbize

Questions about univerbize

What does univerbize mean?
Univerbize means to cause, or to undergo univerbation.
What part of speech is univerbize?
Univerbize is a verb.
What is the past tense of univerbize?
The past tense of univerbize is univerbized.

Words near univerbize in the dictionary

  1. univerbation
  2. univerbations
  3. univerbative
  4. univerbization
  5. univerbizations
  6. univerbize
  7. univerbized
  8. univerbizing
  9. universal
  10. universal algebra
  11. universal algebras

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