Verbify
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To make into a verb; to use as a verb; to verbalize. [R.]Earle.
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The process of creating a new verb based on an existing noun. The new verb provides an abbreviated way to describe using the noun.
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to derive a verb from an already existing noun
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What happens to a word when someone decides to make a literary change to it, or [to slang] it. For example, access. Access used to be a noun, and now its a verb. In [factuality], the word verbify would not exist if itself had not happened to itself. Hence, verbify got verbified, or [verbed]. The present tense (another example, adjective to verb) of the action is always verbify, but the past tense can be either verbified, or tensed into verbed. However, verb itself did not get verbed, so you cannot verb a word, but a word can be verbed.
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