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phonetize

phonetize verb: to represent (something) by phonetic signs.

Verb

phonetize (third-person singular simple present phonetizes, present participle phonetizing, simple past and past participle phonetized)

  1. (transitive) To represent (something) by phonetic signs.
    • I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England.1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page...

Forms of phonetize

third-person singular presentphonetizes
present participlephonetizing
past participlephonetized
pastphonetized

Questions about phonetize

What does phonetize mean?
Phonetize means to represent (something) by phonetic signs.
What part of speech is phonetize?
Phonetize is a verb.
What is the past tense of phonetize?
The past tense of phonetize is phonetized.

Words near phonetize in the dictionary

  1. phonetism
  2. phonetist
  3. phonetists
  4. phonetization
  5. phonetizations
  6. phonetize
  7. phonetized
  8. phonetizes
  9. phonetizing
  10. phoneward
  11. phonewise

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