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debuccalise

debuccalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of debuccalize.

Meaning of debuccalize

Verb

debuccalize (third-person singular simple present debuccalizes, present participle debuccalizing, simple past and past participle debuccalized)

  1. (British, Canada, English, Oxford, US) To undergo debuccalization.
    • I should point out that the tendency for stops to debuccalize to glottal stop and fricatives to glottal fricative does not always hold.2002, Paul D. Fallon, The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives, page 126

Forms of debuccalise

third-person singular presentdebuccalises
present participledebuccalising
past participledebuccalised
pastdebuccalised

Questions about debuccalise

What is debuccalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Debuccalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of debuccalize.

Words near debuccalise in the dictionary

  1. debts of honour
  2. debubblizer
  3. debubblizers
  4. debuccalisation
  5. debuccalisations
  6. debuccalise
  7. debuccalised
  8. debuccalises
  9. debuccalising
  10. debuccalization
  11. debuccalizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debuccalise (page history and authors); debuccalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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