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ventriloquating

ventriloquating is the present participle and gerund of ventriloquate.

Meaning of ventriloquate

Verb

ventriloquate (third-person singular simple present ventriloquates, present participle ventriloquating, simple past and past participle ventriloquated)

  1. To speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
  2. To speak in someone else's voice.
    • It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).2005, Applied linguistics, Volume 26

Questions about ventriloquating

What is ventriloquating the present participle and gerund of?
Ventriloquating is the present participle and gerund of ventriloquate.

Words near ventriloquating in the dictionary

  1. ventriloqual
  2. ventriloqually
  3. ventriloquate
  4. ventriloquated
  5. ventriloquates
  6. ventriloquating
  7. ventriloque
  8. ventriloques
  9. ventriloquial
  10. ventriloquially
  11. ventriloquies

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