acronymizev.

1955 M. Reifer Dict. New Words 3/1 Acronym, a word made up of the first letters of a series of words, or the beginnings and ends of a series of words, such as UNO, WAVE, radar, motel, etc. acronymic, acronymous. adj. acronymize. v.

1956 R. Wells in M. Halle et al. For Roman Jakobson 665 Take the WE counterpart of the SE expression to be acronymized (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and select from each word the first one or two or three letters in such a way that the selected letters, assembled and regarded as one word, will have a normal, pronounceable SE counterpart.

1981 Amer. Speech 56 65 Byte is a fairly far-fetched way of acronymizing binary digit eight.

1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 78/3 It isn't as corny as its predecessors, and it can't be upsettingly acronymized like Nelson Rockefeller's incessant ‘Brotherhood of Man, Fatherhood of God’—or, sometimes vice-versa—which became BOMFOG (only one better than FOGBOM) each time it was reported anew.

2004 M. Chartrand Satellite Communications for Nonspecialist 130 E_b/N_O. (A few people acronymize this and pronounce it as ‘EB-noh’.)