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SUBVOCALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does subvocalize mean?
• SUBVOCALIZE (verb)
The verb SUBVOCALIZE has 1 sense:
1. articulate without making audible sounds
Familiarity information: SUBVOCALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they subvocalize ... he / she / it subvocalizes
Past simple: subvocalized
Past participle: subvocalized
-ing form: subvocalizing
... he / she / it subvocalizes Past simple: subvocalized
Past participle: subvocalized
-ing form: subvocalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Articulate without making audible sounds
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
subvocalise; subvocalize
Context example:
she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized
Hypernyms (to "subvocalize" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
subvocalizer (someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds)
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