adverbize
verbUK /ˈæd.vɜːˌbaɪz/ · US /ˈæd.vɝˌbaɪz/
Etymology From adverb + -ize.
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To convert to an adverb.
- The poultry industry has shown rapid, solid growth during the past few years not only commercially but also "fancierly" — if I may adverbize the noun fancier.1947, New England Poultry Review:
- As for eschewing modifiers, he encourages writers to adjectivize and adverbize inventively, and even to concoct neologisms, or made-up words.2007, Iowa Alumni Magazine:
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- Furthermore, the way in which Mantra takes two nouns, “máscara” and “luchador” and adverbizes or adjectivizes them suggests a subjectivity based on process rather than location.2010, J. Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America, Springer, →ISBN: