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laryngealizing

laryngealizing is the present participle and gerund of laryngealize.

Meaning of laryngealize

Verb

laryngealize (third-person singular simple present laryngealizes, present participle laryngealizing, simple past and past participle laryngealized)

  1. To articulate as a laryngeal sound, to produce (a sound) through or with action of the larynx.
  2. To modify (a pronunciation or a sound) by constricting the larynx.
    • But creaky or laryngealized quality throughout whole stretches of very low-pitched speech characterize boredom, reluctance [etc.] Children typically laryngealize their voice for coaxing adults.1993, Fernando Poyatos, Paralanguage, page 209

Questions about laryngealizing

What is laryngealizing the present participle and gerund of?
Laryngealizing is the present participle and gerund of laryngealize.

Words near laryngealizing in the dictionary

  1. laryngealization
  2. laryngealizations
  3. laryngealize
  4. laryngealized
  5. laryngealizes
  6. laryngealizing
  7. laryngeally
  8. laryngeals
  9. laryngean
  10. laryngectomee
  11. laryngectomees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laryngealizing (page history and authors); laryngealize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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