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spirantize

spirantize verb: to change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.

Verb

spirantize (third-person singular simple present spirantizes, present participle spirantizing, simple past and past participle spirantized)

  1. To change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.

Forms of spirantize

third-person singular presentspirantizes
present participlespirantizing
past participlespirantized
pastspirantized

Origin of spirantize

From spirant + -ize.

Questions about spirantize

What does spirantize mean?
Spirantize means to change (a consonant) to a spirant sound.
What part of speech is spirantize?
Spirantize is a verb.
What is the past tense of spirantize?
The past tense of spirantize is spirantized.

Words near spirantize in the dictionary

  1. spirantic
  2. spirantisation
  3. spirantisations
  4. spirantization
  5. spirantizations
  6. spirantize
  7. spirantized
  8. spirantizes
  9. spirantizing
  10. spirants
  11. spiraperturate

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