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v. - Make into a word that implies action

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Usage examples (9)
  • Anyone who can verbify the word nervous is quite awesome.
  • I think the term should be “to verbify”.skyywiseQuote
  • Just as we can verbify the idea of a quality in such cases as “reddens, ” so we can represent a quality or an action to ourselves as a thing.
  • The structure is pretty flexible, so it’s easy to verbify and then make verbs adjectives, until a word can morph to fit any particular part of the sentence – and then...
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