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fricatise

fricatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fricatize.

Meaning of fricatize

Verb

fricatize (third-person singular simple present fricatizes, present participle fricatizing, simple past and past participle fricatized)

  1. To make fricative.
    • We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it.1953, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature - Volume 10, page 73
    Synonyms:
    affricatize

Forms of fricatise

third-person singular presentfricatises
present participlefricatising
past participlefricatised
pastfricatised

Questions about fricatise

What is fricatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Fricatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fricatize.

Words near fricatise in the dictionary

  1. fricassée
  2. fricassées
  3. fricated
  4. frication
  5. frications
  6. fricatise
  7. fricatised
  8. fricative
  9. fricatively
  10. fricativeness
  11. fricatives

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