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spirantizing

spirantizing is the present participle and gerund of spirantize.

Meaning of spirantize

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.

Questions about spirantizing

What is spirantizing the present participle and gerund of?
Spirantizing is the present participle and gerund of spirantize.

Words near spirantizing in the dictionary

  1. spirantization
  2. spirantizations
  3. spirantize
  4. spirantized
  5. spirantizes
  6. spirantizing
  7. spirants
  8. spiraperturate
  9. spirapril
  10. spiraprilat
  11. spiraster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spirantizing (page history and authors); spirantize (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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