adverbify

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verb

To convert (a word that is not an adverb) into an adverb.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbadverbify (third-person singular simple present adverbifies, present participle adverbifying, simple past and past participle adverbified)

present singular third person adverbifies · participle present adverbifying · participle past adverbified · past adverbified

  1. raretransitiveTo convert (a word that is not an adverb) into an adverb.

    Adjectively Adverbified

    1989 second quarter, Ken Lawrence, “Adjectively Adverbified”, in The Philatelic Communicator, Writers Unit No. 30 of the American Philatelic Society, volume 22, number 2 (whole 84), →ISSN, page 17
    4 more examples

    But the Accent over it Adverbifies it with a Witneſs, and pins it down beyond Contradiction an Adverb, by annihilating it as an Adjective.

    1722, [John] Ozell, “The Introduction”, in Common-Prayer Not Common Sense, in Several Places of the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, and Greek Translations of the English Liturgy. […], London: […] J. Peele, […], page 11

    -kun times, adverbifying

    1960, A[lfred] L[ouis] Kroeber, George William Grace, The Sparkman Grammar of Luiseno, Berkeley, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, page 127

    After stopping at the dangerous noun or classificatory adjective, ask yourself what you have seen the client do that has been collapsed into the noun. Then describe that doing; verbify, adverbify! Describe the comportment directly; for example, “During the interview Sue smoked a dozen cigarettes, fidgeted with a medallion, and shifted posture every few minutes,” or “She answered my questions, all the while nervously smoking, fidgeting, or shifting in her chair.”

    1985, Constance T. Fischer, “Writing Individualized Reports”, in Individualizing Psychological Assessment, Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, part two (Report Writing and Sample Reports), chapter section “Writing to Individualize”, page 135

    I wouldn't mention it but for the wonderful number of different forms. It was verbed (transitive too!), adjectivized, and adverbified, and all in period. I love "archedolts"!

    1994 March 20, Tim McDaniel, “Ellisif's statement on the suit”, in rec.org.sca (Usenet)

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