Fricatize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make fricative.

    "We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it."

Synonyms

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affricatize

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"We do not have any fricatized gutturals in English, but we have fricatized labials and dentals which we spell in very inconsistent ways. We sometimes fricatize the letter “p” by adding “h” to it."

Etymology

From [Term?] + -ize.

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