Example sentences for: verbification

How can you use “verbification” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In an article in the September 1978 VERBATIM [V,2], Prof. Noel Perrin explained the technical reasons behind the verbification of other parts of speech—why, for example, we breafkast and lunch , but do not dinner .

  • One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .


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