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PALATALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does palatalize mean?
• PALATALIZE (verb)
The verb PALATALIZE has 1 sense:
1. pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
Familiarity information: PALATALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they palatalize ... he / she / it palatalizes
Past simple: palatalized
Past participle: palatalized
-ing form: palatalizing
... he / she / it palatalizes Past simple: palatalized
Past participle: palatalized
-ing form: palatalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
palatalise; palatalize
Hypernyms (to "palatalize" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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