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DIPHTHONGISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diphthongise mean? 

DIPHTHONGISE (verb)
  The verb DIPHTHONGISE has 1 sense:

1. change from a simple vowel to a diphthongplay

  Familiarity information: DIPHTHONGISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIPHTHONGISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they diphthongise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it diphthongises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: diphthongised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: diphthongised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: diphthongising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

diphthongise; diphthongize

Context example:

This vowel diphthongized in Germanic

Hypernyms (to "diphthongise" is one way to...):

change; shift; switch (lay aside, abandon, or leave for another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diphthongise"):

break (undergo breaking)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s


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