<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object)</li><li>Linguistics</li><li>Lexicalized</li><li>Lexicalizing</li><li>To convert (an affix, a phrase, etc.) into a lexical item, as in using the suffix -ism as the noun ism.</li><li>To represent (a set of semantic features) by a lexical item.</li></ul>