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vocalized

vocalized is the alternative spelling of vocalised.

vocalized is the simple past and past participle of vocalize.

Meaning of vocalize

Verb

vocalize (third-person singular simple present vocalizes, present participle vocalizing, simple past and past participle vocalized)

  1. To express with the voice, to utter.
    • Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]1876, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, preface to the 1876 edition
  2. To produce noises or calls from the throat.
    • We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
  3. To sing without using words.
  4. To turn a consonant into a vowel.
    • In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
  5. (dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
  6. To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
    Synonyms:
    outspeak

Forms of vocalized

comparativemore vocalized
superlativemost vocalized

Words formed from vocalized

Questions about vocalized

What is vocalized the alternative spelling of?
Vocalized is the alternative spelling of vocalised.

Words near vocalized in the dictionary

  1. vocality
  2. vocalization
  3. vocalizational
  4. vocalizations
  5. vocalize
  6. vocalized
  7. vocalizer
  8. vocalizers
  9. vocalizes
  10. vocalizing
  11. vocalizings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vocalized (page history and authors); vocalize (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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