univerbize

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verb

To cause, or to undergo univerbation.

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Meanings

verbuniverbize (third-person singular simple present univerbizes, present participle univerbizing, simple past and past participle univerbized)

present singular third person univerbizes · participle present univerbizing · participle past univerbized · past univerbized

  1. uncommonhuman sciencesTo cause, or to undergo univerbation.

    There are in fact fewer univerbized lexemes than the transformational analysis predicts.

    1986, Piotr Ruszkiewicz, “One some recent claims concerning derivational morphology”, in Linguistics Across Historical and Geographical Boundaries. In Honour of Jacek Fisiak on the Occasion of His Fiftieth Birthday (Trends in Linguistics; 32), volumes 2. Descriptive, Contrastive and Applied Linguistics, Berlin: De Gruyter, page 1035 of 1025 seqq.
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    K. Hegerová, KS, 21:102-08, reviews univerbizing, intellectualizing and colloquial trends in nouns for locations, e.g., chlebíčkáreň, inšpekčka.

    1987, James Naughton, “II. Slovak Studies. Language”, in The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, volume 49, page 904 of 901–909

    Synonyms: univerbate

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo cause, or to undergo univerbation.

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univerbize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univerbize

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“univerbize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univerbize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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