Meanings
present singular third person adverbizes · participle present adverbizing · participle past adverbized · past adverbized · alternative adverbise
- transitiveTo convert to an adverb.
As for eschewing modifiers, he encourages writers to adjectivize and adverbize inventively, and even to concoct neologisms, or made-up words.
2007, Iowa Alumni Magazine2 more examples
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 ReviewFurthermore, 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
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