Definition of verbing those

verb    

verb - ambitransitive

• to use a noun as a verb. In English, this usually requires only adding the proper conjugation ending: "-s", "-ed", or "-ing".

  Verbing weirds language.

  Last edited on Feb 15 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 17 2009.

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