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VOWELIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vowelize mean?
• VOWELIZE (verb)
The verb VOWELIZE has 1 sense:
1. pronounce as a vowel
Familiarity information: VOWELIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they vowelize ... he / she / it vowelizes
Past simple: vowelized
Past participle: vowelized
-ing form: vowelizing
... he / she / it vowelizes Past simple: vowelized
Past participle: vowelized
-ing form: vowelizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pronounce as a vowel
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
vocalise; vocalize; vowelise; vowelize
Context example:
between two consonants, this liquid is vowelized
Hypernyms (to "vowelize" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
vowel (a speech sound made with the vocal tract open)
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