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/ˈvɝbəˌɫaɪz/
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VERB
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express in speech
This depressed patient does not verbalize
She talks a lot of nonsense -
be verbose
This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious -
convert into a verb
many English nouns have become verbalized -
articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
He uttered a curse
She expressed her anger
How To Use verbalize In A Sentence
- And there was an unverbalized message somewhere in her eyes. Killing Time
- I remember with still-swelling pride what special people we were, and the bond—unverbalized, but not untested—that held us together; what a mighty oath we swore to one another, but never said a word. Life Lit by Some Large Vision
- In addition to such verbalized utterances there will be a number of sighs, suspirations, and ritual gestures: rapid and repeated finger tapping, holding of the head in one hand, or two hands, and so forth.
- It's worthless to parade my BA in politics if I can't even verbalise my own opinions.
- Members of dysfunctional families tend to either withhold or not verbalize their feelings, wants, likes, and dislikes with each other.
- A little unverbalized sound answered that, and Mrs. Somers said good evening and walked on. Say and Seal, Volume I
- Freudian psychoanalysis refers to a specific type of treatment in which the "analysand" analytic patient verbalizes thoughts, including free associations, fantasies, and dreams, from which the analyst formulates the unconscious conflicts causing the patient's symptoms and character problems, and interprets them for the patient to create insight for resolution of the problems. Analysand verbalizes thoughts
- Many of my students were too stressed to verbalize their feelings.
- Women also think men do not care about many things important to women, which is why they criticize. Criticism is a way to verbalize resentment.
- Those are both good signs in terms of actually being able to make noise, verbalize a little bit maybe, also moving his extremities is a good sign as well. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006