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delabializing

delabializing is the present participle and gerund 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 delabializing

What is delabializing the present participle and gerund of?
Delabializing is the present participle and gerund of delabialize.

Words near delabializing in the dictionary

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

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