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gutturize

gutturize verb: to make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.

Verb

gutturize (third-person singular simple present gutturizes, present participle gutturizing, simple past and past participle gutturized)

  1. (transitive) To make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.
    • July 7, 1832, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Greek - dual, neuter plural, and verb singular - theta
      How particularly fine the hard theta is in an English termination, as in that grand word — Death — for which the Germans gutturize a sound that puts you in mind of nothing but a loathsome toad.

Forms of gutturize

third-person singular presentgutturizes
present participlegutturizing
past participlegutturized
pastgutturized

Origin of gutturize

From Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ize.

Questions about gutturize

What does gutturize mean?
Gutturize means to make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.
What part of speech is gutturize?
Gutturize is a verb.
What is the past tense of gutturize?
The past tense of gutturize is gutturized.

Words near gutturize in the dictionary

  1. gutturalizes
  2. gutturalizing
  3. gutturally
  4. gutturalness
  5. gutturals
  6. gutturize
  7. gutturized
  8. gutturizes
  9. gutturizing
  10. gutturonasal
  11. gutty

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