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delabializes

delabializes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of delabialize.

Meaning of delabialize

Verb

delabialize (third-person singular simple present delabializes, present participle delabializing, simple past and past participle delabialized)

  1. (transitive) To make into a non-labial sound.
    • the resulting labial vowels were soon delabialized into e and ē.1884, Henry Sweet, First Middle English Primer, page 5
  2. (intransitive) To become a non-labial sound.
    • /gw/ may delabialize to /g/.1981, Charles Stephen Bird, The Dialects of Mandekan, page 170

Questions about delabializes

What is delabializes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Delabializes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of delabialize.

Words near delabializes in the dictionary

  1. delabialisation
  2. delabialization
  3. delabializations
  4. delabialize
  5. delabialized
  6. delabializes
  7. delabializing
  8. Delabole
  9. delaceration
  10. delacerations
  11. Delacerda

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