Verbized nouns

[pat]

Verbized? Ugh! I thought I'd made the word up as the subject topic but I've actually found a reference to it.

But on the topic of nouns that have been turned into verbs, I recently came across a dreadful one: symmetrize.

Anyone else seen any particularly bad ones?

[Alonzo Quixote]

Here is one I have found particularly distasteful  (and it's been around quite a while)—

conversate

Conversation  is a useful noun;  so is the verb  converse.  I don't understand why  conversate  has attempted to make it into the language.

[Steadyguy]

Verbized? Ugh! I thought I'd made the word up as the subject topic but I've actually found a reference to it.

But on the topic of nouns that have been turned into verbs, I recently came across a dreadful one: symmetrize.

Anyone else seen any particularly bad ones?

Am I right in assuming that we already have the acceptable 'verbalise' Pat?

Second question is how do we feel with oft used 'do-able'?

[anonsi]

Pat, if I were to make up a phrase for what this phenomenon is, I would say "noun verbification". Only apparenly verbification is a real term and is in use all over. Scary.

In looking up verbification, I came across this article by Grammar Girl.  While the beginning is about whether Taser as a verb should be tased or tasered, etc., it does get more interesting from there. Stay with the article and you'll learn more about the history of verbification and some of its uses that you may not even think twice about today.

If you haven't heard of Grammar Girl, you might want to check it out anyway. She does an excellent job of breaking down grammar into terms the lay person can understand and retain.

[birdy]

Not crazy about the word "verbize" but it's not the same as "verbalize" - which would probably use more parts of speech than mere verbs.

"doable"  seems more useful - the synonyms I just found were much longer:

1. (adj) accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizable
capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
Synonyms: doable, achievable, accomplishable, manageable, realizable
Antonyms: impossible