Meaning

6 senses

  1. To express with the voice, to utter.

    utter speech sounds

  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.

    pronounce as a vowel

  5. (dated)To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.

  6. To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)

Translations

1 languages

Forms

vocalizes, vocalizing, vocalized, vocalized
Base formvocalize · to vocalize
3rd person singularvocalizes
Present participlevocalizing
Past simplevocalized
Past participlevocalized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyvocalize
he, she, itvocalizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsvocalized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill vocalize

Synonyms

9 synonyms
of humans:outspeak
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Relatedvocalizationvocalizervocalvocalizing
Deriveddevocalizemisvocalizesubvocalize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
vocabularyA2vocalvocalistB2vocationvocationalC2vociferousvodka

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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