adverbize

English

Etymology

From adverb +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăd′-vər-bīz′
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɜːˌbaɪz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɝˌbaɪz/

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Verb

adverbize (third-person singular simple present adverbizes, present participle adverbizing, simple past and past participle adverbized)

1. (transitive) To convert to an adverb.
   • 1947, New England Poultry Review:

     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.

   • 2007, Iowa Alumni Magazine:

     As for eschewing modifiers, he encourages writers to adjectivize and adverbize inventively, and even to concoct neologisms, or made-up words.

   • 2010, J. Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America, Springer, →ISBN:

     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.

See also

• (converting into or using as another part of speech)
  
  • adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify
  • adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize
  • nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, substantify, (very rare) substantive
  • verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify