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verbify

verbify verb: to use a noun as a verb via anthimeria.

Verb

verbify (third-person singular simple present verbifies, present participle verbifying, simple past and past participle verbified)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive) To use a noun as a verb via anthimeria.
  2. (nonstandard, slang, transitive) To derive a verb from a pre-existing noun.
    • One way to verbify quickly is by adding the suffix -ize to a word. Numerous examples are cited where verbified words have come into common usage.1994, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, page 1173

Forms of verbify

third-person singular presentverbifies
present participleverbifying
past participleverbified
pastverbified

Origin of verbify

From verb + -ify.

Words formed from verbify

Questions about verbify

What does verbify mean?
Verbify means to use a noun as a verb via anthimeria.
What part of speech is verbify?
Verbify is a verb.
What is the past tense of verbify?
The past tense of verbify is verbified.

Words near verbify in the dictionary

  1. verbids
  2. verbification
  3. verbifications
  4. verbified
  5. verbifies
  6. verbify
  7. verbifying
  8. verbigerate
  9. verbigerated
  10. verbigerates
  11. verbigerating

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