Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, nonstandard, colloquial) To use any word that is not a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.

* a. 1981 Feb 22, unknown Guardian editor as quoted by William Safire, On Language'', in ''New York Times , pSM3

Haig, in congressional hearings before his confirmatory, paradoxed his auditioners by abnormalling his responds so that verbs were nouned, nouns verbed and adjectives adverbised. He techniqued a new way to vocabulary his thoughts so as to informationally uncertain anybody listening about what he had actually implicationed... .

* 1997 , David. F. Griffiths, Desmond J. Higham, learning L^AT_EX , p8

Nouns should never be verbed .

* 2005 Oct 5, Jeffrey Mattison, Letters'', in ''The Christian Science Monitor , p8

In English, verbing nouns is okay

To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

* 1946 : Rand Corporation, The Rand Paper Series

For example, one-part versions of the proposition "The doctor pursued the lawyer" were "The doctor verbed the object," ...

* 1964 : Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Each sentence had the same basic structure: ''The subject transitive verbed''' the object who intransitive '''verbed in the location''.

* 1998 : Marilyn A. Walker, Aravind Krishna Joshi, Centering Theory in Discourse

The sentence frame was ''Dan verbed Ben approaching the store''. This sentence frame was followed in all cases by ''He went inside''.

Verb

(manag)

To direct or be in charge of.

To handle or control (a situation, job).

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:

The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].

To succeed at an attempt

* , chapter=7

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis

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To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

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To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

(Shakespeare)