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Back-formations.
Tracy Frey and Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (11 ed.)
The transformation of a noun into a verb is a back-formation, often seen in technical as well as informal writing. Diagnose, for example, is a mid–19th-century back-formation, from diagnosis. Back-formations in use include dialyze (from dialysis) and anesthetize (from anesthesia). A back-formation that is not widely accepted is ...View:
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