to verbalize
- verb
- /ˈvɜːrbəlaɪz/
- Specialized
- The teacher encouraged her students to verbalize their ideas during the discussion.
Examples
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In order to comprehend the material better, she needed to verbalize the key concepts.
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When he faced a difficult decision, he took a moment to verbalize his thoughts.
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OK, so, so whatever you're going through, if you verbalize what you're going through, I'm still going to remember.
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However, I was thinking of explicitly verbalized rules that are enacted and enforced in some way.
Blog text (5) -
"I thought Yoda might have left something behind that we could use," he told the droid, choosing the most easily verbalized of his reasons.
Fiction book (1991) -
An intuitive form of chameleon, this breed can accurately assess the needs of potential mates and will verbalize his intentions to meet these needs.
Blog text (2) -
This learning leads directly to the emergence of reading skills; students can transform known symbol patterns into verbalized syllable patterns, resulting in proficient rhythm reading.
Academic text (2006) -
In contrast, verbalizing non-propositional content, such as providing only the number of objects or animals on the screen (as in the NP condition), seemed to offer no benefit to these children.
Academic text (2013) -
Words and images resonate among speakers and listeners in multiply meaningful ways, as each person absorbs the verbalized fragment into his or her own contextual frame of inner speech.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
Make a noun into a word that shows an action or state
To make a new word for an idea and use it in a language
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Verbalize comes from the Latin verbum 'word' and the ending -ize 'to make', as in realize. So to verbalize a noun is to 'make' it into a verb — to turn it into an action word.