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deemphaticizing

deemphaticizing is the present participle and gerund 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 deemphaticizing

What is deemphaticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Deemphaticizing is the present participle and gerund of deemphaticize.

Words near deemphaticizing in the dictionary

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

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