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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To render (an oral narrative, for example) in written form, especially in a permanent, rigid, or authoritative form.

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  • verb transitive To make textual; to set down in, or reduce to, text.

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Examples

  • Fanfic writers just textualize or vid, depending on their chosen medium the what-if scenario, show it to others, mull the implications.

    Let’s Get Transformative « Whatever 2007

  • Maybe I'm just trying to avoid dealing with my occasional inability to verbalize and/or textualize what I'm feeling. previous   next

    kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2000

  • Being ultimately thin in their cross-section each book stacked hundreds of pages and hence provided the ancient scholars with plenty of one-spot physical material at hand to textualize their thoughts or knowledge, a rare thing in those times otherwise!

    Coolbuzz 2008

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