verbingn.
/ˈvəːbɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈvərbɪŋ/ rare before late 20th cent.
The action or practice of converting words, esp. nouns, to verbs.
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verbing1766
verbification1785
verbalization1837
1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances IV. 60 As to the Nouning and Verbing, which he so heavily charged you with, I told him..that you never confounded Grammar.
1974 S. Malarkey & D. MacRae Themes in Lit. 188 About halfway through the poem Miss Swenson begins to play fast and loose with grammar, making verbs of nouns—it might be called the ‘verbing’ of nouns.
1985 Washington Post 27 May a19/3 I think it's worth wondering about role models. Or about role modeling if you belong to the ‘interfacing’, ‘accessing’, ‘networking’ school of verbing.
2010 Times 2 Mar. 23/5 Verbing is an honoured literary tradition... See Plutarch's Lives Englished by Sir Thomas North in 1579.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1766- to look strange
- to look successfully
- to look take care of number one
- to look the business
- to look the kind
- to look the other way
- to look the part
- to look the sort
- to look the type
- to look through
- to look through a hempen window
- to look through a millstone
- to look through one's fingers
- to look through one'the fingers
- to look through the other end of the perspective
- to look through the wrong end of the perspective
- to look till
- to look to
- to look to it
- to look to one's hits
- to look to one's laurels
- to look to the future
- to look to the main chance
- to look toward
- to look toward a person