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deemphaticized

deemphaticized is the simple past and past participle of deemphaticize.

Meaning of deemphaticize

Verb

deemphaticize (third-person singular simple present deemphaticizes, present participle deemphaticizing, simple past and past participle deemphaticized)

  1. To render not emphatic any more.
    • In addition Standard Arabic words may be subjected to other general Nigerian Arabic phonological processes. For example, voiced consonants are devoiced prepausally, and some urban speakers may deemphaticize emphatic consonants. The form lafis < *lafð̥ thus arises via (8h), with devoicing and...2000, Jonathan Owens, “Loanwords in Nigerian Arabic: a quantitative approach”, in Arabic as a Minority Language (Contributions to the Sociology of Language; 83), New York · Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter...

Questions about deemphaticized

What is deemphaticized the simple past and past participle of?
Deemphaticized is the simple past and past participle of deemphaticize.

Words near deemphaticized in the dictionary

  1. deemphasize
  2. deemphasized
  3. deemphasizes
  4. deemphasizing
  5. deemphaticize
  6. deemphaticized
  7. deemphaticizes
  8. deemphaticizing
  9. deempster
  10. deems
  11. deemster

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