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vocalizes

vocalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about vocalizes

What is vocalizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Vocalizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vocalize.

Words near vocalizes in the dictionary

  1. vocalizations
  2. vocalize
  3. vocalized
  4. vocalizer
  5. vocalizers
  6. vocalizes
  7. vocalizing
  8. vocalizings
  9. vocaller
  10. vocallers
  11. vocally

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