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gutturizing

gutturizing is the present participle and gerund of gutturize.

Meaning of gutturize

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.

Questions about gutturizing

What is gutturizing the present participle and gerund of?
Gutturizing is the present participle and gerund of gutturize.

Words near gutturizing in the dictionary

  1. gutturalness
  2. gutturals
  3. gutturize
  4. gutturized
  5. gutturizes
  6. gutturizing
  7. gutturonasal
  8. gutty
  9. gutté
  10. guttée
  11. gutweed

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