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#165: nominalize

11/21/2015

 
to ​nominalize
the verbs "house" and "fly" might turn
them into houseflies?
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I tell ya, some of these words-of-the-day are really hard to use in any poem or prose writing... let alone haiku. 

I'm considering using several "word-of-the-day" sources so I have more to choose from! Nominalize... meh. 

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable verb:
  1. to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly  or the verb legalize into legalization.

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