verbifyv.

1820 J. B. Gilchrist Stranger's Infallible East-Indian Guide (ed. 3) 142 Division fifth..contains persi-arabic words verbified and thus naturalized in the hindoostanee.

1847 J. G. Bridgman tr. J. H. de Prémare Notitia Linguæ Sinicæ 177 In the various languages of Europe to verbify nouns, if we may use the expression, is a practice quite common and attended with no difficulty.

1884 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 15 p. xxxii Hitchiti verbifies in the same manner.

1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Feb. 78/1 These days when nouns, adjectives, and even adverbs are ‘verbified’.

1974 Alice (Texas) Echo-News 18 June 3/4 It may be argued that since ‘stonewall’ already existed in verb form the President and his men were not verbifying, or forming verbs themselves.

2004 D. A. Fryxell Write Faster, write Better 193 Go ahead, within reason, and coin phrases, verbify nouns.

1884 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 15 p. xxxii An instance of a verbified substantive, míki, ‘chief’, was presented above.

1930 E. Sapir in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 65 207 These verbs..are merely verbified forms of demonstrative ai- and mai-.

2005 J. E. Gaskin Talk is Cheap vi. 165 You're talking via Skype. Or you're Skypeing, another verbified noun in this new century.

1823 D. Scot Murray's Hist. European Langs. II. 265 A consonant or long vowel may intervene, which vowel or consonant may be justly called the verbifying consignificative.

1890 A. S. Gatschet Klamath Indians i. 331 A contraction of -hia, -a being the declarative, verbifying suffix, and hi the particle hi, i, ‘on the ground’.

1978 Verbatim Sept. 7/1 (heading) Verbifying in America.

1987 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Nov. 20/2 The current use of out as a verbifying phrasemaker has led to the expression to fink out.

2012 Australian (Nexis) 3 Jan. 13 The rampant verbifying of ‘medal’ and ‘podium’ by sportswriters.