verbo-, verb-, verbi- +

1. The action of verbalizing or the fact of being verbalized.
2. A verbal expression or statement.
3. In psychiatry, the state of being verbose or diffuse, commonly encountered in an extreme degree in patients with the manic form of manic-depressive psychosis.

In a more general sense, verbalization refers to the expression in words of thoughts, wishes, phantasies, or other psychic material that had previously been on a nonverbal level because of suppression or repression. “Verbalize” is often used in a pseudoerudite way when “talk about” is meant.

1. To say something in words.
2. To use many words; to talk diffusely; to be verbose.
3. To express in words.
4. To make a word that is another part of speech, e.g., a noun or adjective, into a verb.

One who registers stimuli or thoughts mentally in verbal terms rather than in visual images; one who verbalizes.

1. Word for word; in respect of each word.
2. In or with (mere) words, without accompanying action or reality.
3. So far as words (only) are concerned.
4. In actual words; by means of words or speech.
5. In speech, as contrasted with writing.
6. With the function of a verb.

A form of a verb ending in “-ing” used as a noun, e.g., “dancing” in “she teaches dancing.”

An excessive fear or hatred of words.

1. Having to do with words.
2. An inventor or coiner of words.

A game in which letters are formed into words; also, one in which a word is changed into others by re-arrangement of its letters.

To reproduce word for word.

1. Word for word, literal, and in precisely the same words.
2. With reference to a copy of a document or passage in a book, or to the report of a speech, etc.
3. With reference to a translation.
4. Corresponding with, or following, an original word for word.
5. Able to take down a speech word for word (in shorthand).
6. Of a speaker, usually reported, or worth reporting, word for word.
7. A full or word-for-word report of a speech.

Word for word and letter for letter; accurately rendered. Sometimes this phrase is written as: verbatim et litteratim et punctatim; or as, "Word for word and letter for letter and point for point."

Spoken words fly away, written words remain.

Also translated as: "Spoken words fly through the air, but written words endure" or "Get it down on paper."

Literally, "Beat me, but hear me out." Freely translated as, "Don't shoot the messenger."

1. Wordiness, long-windedness, blather, or garrulity.
2. Wording of a superabundant or superfluous character, abundance of words without necessity or without much meaning; excessive wordiness.
3. Diction, wording, verbal expression.

Tending or liable to destroy the sense or value of a word.