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phonetized

phonetized is the simple past and past participle of phonetize.

Meaning of phonetize

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...

Questions about phonetized

What is phonetized the simple past and past participle of?
Phonetized is the simple past and past participle of phonetize.

Words near phonetized in the dictionary

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

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