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ventriloquise

ventriloquise is the alternative form of ventriloquize.

Meaning of ventriloquize

Verb

ventriloquize (third-person singular simple present ventriloquizes, present participle ventriloquizing, simple past and past participle ventriloquized)

  1. (intransitive) To practice ventriloquism.
  2. (transitive) To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.
    • Ms. Seltzer has talked about being “torn,” about wanting somehow to ventriloquize her subjects, to “put a voice to people who people don’t listen to.” Ms. De Wael has similarly referred to a longing to be part of the group to which she did not, emphatically, belong: “I felt different.2008 March 9, Daniel Mendelsohn, “Stolen Suffering”, in New York Times

Forms of ventriloquise

third-person singular presentventriloquises
present participleventriloquising
past participleventriloquised
pastventriloquised

Questions about ventriloquise

What is ventriloquise the alternative form of?
Ventriloquise is the alternative form of ventriloquize.

Words near ventriloquise in the dictionary

  1. ventriloque
  2. ventriloques
  3. ventriloquial
  4. ventriloquially
  5. ventriloquies
  6. ventriloquise
  7. ventriloquised
  8. ventriloquises
  9. ventriloquising
  10. ventriloquism
  11. ventriloquisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ventriloquise (page history and authors); ventriloquize (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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