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fricatizing

fricatizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about fricatizing

What is fricatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Fricatizing is the present participle and gerund of fricatize.

Words near fricatizing in the dictionary

  1. fricativizing
  2. fricatization
  3. fricatize
  4. fricatized
  5. fricatizes
  6. fricatizing
  7. fricatrice
  8. fricatrices
  9. fricc
  10. fricced
  11. friccing

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