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verbalise

verbalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

Meaning of verbalize

Verb

verbalize (third-person singular simple present verbalizes, present participle verbalizing, 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) To adapt (a word of another part of speech) as a verb.

Forms of verbalise

third-person singular presentverbalises
present participleverbalising
past participleverbalised
pastverbalised

Origin of verbalise

Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal + -ise.

Words formed from verbalise

Questions about verbalise

What is verbalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Verbalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

Words near verbalise in the dictionary

  1. verbaled
  2. verbaling
  3. verbalisable
  4. verbalisation
  5. verbalisations
  6. verbalise
  7. verbalised
  8. verbaliser
  9. verbalisers
  10. verbalises
  11. verbalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: verbalise (page history and authors); verbalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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