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vocalizing

vocalizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

vocalizing (plural vocalizings)

  1. vocalization
    • In acquiring mastery of his language, the native speaker had nothing more to go on than encouragement and discouragement of his vocalizings in observable circumstances[…]1976, Gareth Evans, John Henry McDowell, Truth and meaning: essays in semantics, page 64

Forms of vocalizing

pluralvocalizings

Words formed from vocalizing

Questions about vocalizing

What does vocalizing mean?
Vocalizing means vocalization.
What is vocalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Vocalizing is the present participle and gerund of vocalize.
What part of speech is vocalizing?
Vocalizing is a noun.
What is the plural of vocalizing?
The plural of vocalizing is vocalizings.

Words near vocalizing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vocalizing (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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