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VERBIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: verbified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make into a verb

Example:

'mouse' has been verbified by computer users

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "verbify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)

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