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Old 06-09-2022, 12:44 AM   #234
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Originally Posted by guanaco View Post
The word is verbing.
Why not denominalization? Anthimeria though that covers using any part of speech as another part of speech so not as precise? Conversion though again that can cover conversion in any direction.

And for what it's worth, verbification and verbify were around in the early 19th century.

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