Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To spell by phonetic script.

  2. (transitive)To change (spelling) so that it is more phonetic (transparent) (see Orthographic depth).

Origin

From phonetic + -ize.

From phonetic + -ize.

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Forms

phoneticizes, phoneticizing, phoneticized, phoneticized
Base formphoneticize · to phoneticize
3rd person singularphoneticizes
Present participlephoneticizing
Past simplephoneticized
Past participlephoneticized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyphoneticize
he, she, itphoneticizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsphoneticized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave phoneticized
he, she, ithas phoneticized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill phoneticize

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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