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Meaning of "devocalize" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVOCALIZE

devocalize  [diːˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVOCALIZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Devocalize is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb devocalize in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEVOCALIZE

PRESENT

Present
I devocalize
you devocalize
he/she/it devocalizes
we devocalize
you devocalize
they devocalize
Present continuous
I am devocalizing
you are devocalizing
he/she/it is devocalizing
we are devocalizing
you are devocalizing
they are devocalizing
Present perfect
I have devocalized
you have devocalized
he/she/it has devocalized
we have devocalized
you have devocalized
they have devocalized
Present perfect continuous
I have been devocalizing
you have been devocalizing
he/she/it has been devocalizing
we have been devocalizing
you have been devocalizing
they have been devocalizing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I devocalized
you devocalized
he/she/it devocalized
we devocalized
you devocalized
they devocalized
Past continuous
I was devocalizing
you were devocalizing
he/she/it was devocalizing
we were devocalizing
you were devocalizing
they were devocalizing
Past perfect
I had devocalized
you had devocalized
he/she/it had devocalized
we had devocalized
you had devocalized
they had devocalized
Past perfect continuous
I had been devocalizing
you had been devocalizing
he/she/it had been devocalizing
we had been devocalizing
you had been devocalizing
they had been devocalizing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will devocalize
you will devocalize
he/she/it will devocalize
we will devocalize
you will devocalize
they will devocalize
Future continuous
I will be devocalizing
you will be devocalizing
he/she/it will be devocalizing
we will be devocalizing
you will be devocalizing
they will be devocalizing
Future perfect
I will have devocalized
you will have devocalized
he/she/it will have devocalized
we will have devocalized
you will have devocalized
they will have devocalized
Future perfect continuous
I will have been devocalizing
you will have been devocalizing
he/she/it will have been devocalizing
we will have been devocalizing
you will have been devocalizing
they will have been devocalizing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would devocalize
you would devocalize
he/she/it would devocalize
we would devocalize
you would devocalize
they would devocalize
Conditional continuous
I would be devocalizing
you would be devocalizing
he/she/it would be devocalizing
we would be devocalizing
you would be devocalizing
they would be devocalizing
Conditional perfect
I would have devocalize
you would have devocalize
he/she/it would have devocalize
we would have devocalize
you would have devocalize
they would have devocalize
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been devocalizing
you would have been devocalizing
he/she/it would have been devocalizing
we would have been devocalizing
you would have been devocalizing
they would have been devocalizing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you devocalize
we let´s devocalize
you devocalize
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to devocalize
Past participle
devocalized
Present Participle
devocalizing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVOCALIZE


alkalise
ˈælkəˌlaɪz
alkalize
ˈælkəˌlaɪz
delocalize
diːˈləʊkəˌlaɪz
focalise
ˈfəʊkəˌlaɪz
focalize
ˈfəʊkəˌlaɪz
lexicalise
ˈlɛksɪkəˌlaɪz
localize
ˈləʊkəˌlaɪz
medicalise
ˈmɛdɪkəˌlaɪz
musicalise
ˈmjuːzɪkəˌlaɪz
musicalize
ˈmjuːzɪkəˌlaɪz
nickelize
ˈnɪkəˌlaɪz
politicalize
pəˈlɪtɪkəˌlaɪz
radicalise
ˈrædɪkəˌlaɪz
radicalize
ˈrædɪkəˌlaɪz
subvocalise
sʌbˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz
sulcalize
ˈsʌlkəˌlaɪz
technicalize
ˈteknɪkəˌlaɪz
theatricalize
θɪˈætrɪkəˌlaɪz
tropicalise
ˈtrɒpɪkəˌlaɪz
vocalize
ˈvəʊkəˌlaɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVOCALIZE

devo
devo max
devocalise
devoice
devoiced
devoicing
devoid
devoir
devoirs
devolution
devolutionary
devolutionist
devolve
devolvement
devon

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVOCALIZE

Belize
capitalize
contextualize
crystalize
decriminalize
finalize
generalize
immortalize
initialize
legalize
marginalize
materialize
neutralize
normalize
personalize
realize
revitalize
socialize
specialize
vandalize
visualize

Synonyms and antonyms of devocalize in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «devocalize» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVOCALIZE

Find out the translation of devocalize to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of devocalize from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «devocalize» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

devocalize
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

devocalize
570 millions of speakers

English

devocalize
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

devocalize
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

devocalize
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

devocalize
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

devocalize
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বধির করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

assourdir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyelaraskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

devocalize
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

devocalize
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

devocalize
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngaturake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

devocalize
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

devocalize
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचलित करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

DeVocalize
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

devocalize
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

devocalize
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

devocalize
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devocalize
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

devocalize
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doof maak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

devocalize
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

devocalize
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of devocalize

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVOCALIZE»

The term «devocalize» is normally little used and occupies the 143.660 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVOCALIZE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about devocalize

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVOCALIZE»

Discover the use of devocalize in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to devocalize and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Prague bulletin of mathematical linguistics
Exhibit 5 1 Nade mnou se teice slouzi. 2 Nad mnou se teice slouzi. 3 Ve vedeni strany tyto pfistupy k seznamu nejsou. 4 V vedeni strany tyto pfistupy ke seznamu nejsou. 5 Ve ldsce hledS prflezitost z starych obchodu u£it lidi. -001- $(l) + ...
2
Webster's II New College Dictionary
devocalize. □. Dhegiha. + vitrifier, to vitrify. — see vitrify.] I. To remove or destroy the glassy quality of. 2. To treat (e.g., glass) so as to cause crystallization, brittleness, and loss of transparency. — de*vit ri-fi'a-ble adj. — de • vrt ri-fi-ca' tionn.
Webster's New World Dictionary, Editors Of Webster's II Dictionaries, 2005
3
Devocalized Woman: A Generational Curse
... closer to God and your blessings than you realize? These are the “little foxes' that devocalize us all at times. Not to mention the old-adage “Be careful what you ask for” Ok, so now you stop asking God for anything and 96 Lena Graystone.
Lena Graystone, 2012
4
Linguistic Foundations
sale the d does not become a t but merely a more or less devocalize ??. A devocalized ?? is not quite the same thing as a t, being pronounced with much less force: thus the above sentence would not be confounded with je υiens te saluer ...
Anthony P R Howatt, Richard C Smith, Richard Smith, 2013
5
Synthesizing Nature-nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive ...
We resolved to devocalize the embryos during the tenting stage early on day 24. Because the embryos were breathing, they could vocalize, albeit feebly, at this time, so we recorded the number of vocalizations each embryo made during the ...
Gilbert Gottlieb, 1997
6
On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg
Those who regularly devocalize / and u in certain positions will not always do the same with a."24 For Comanche and Nyangumata there are explicit statements that the lowest vowel a is much more rarely devoiced than the others. In Shawnee ...
Joseph Harold Greenberg, Keith M. Denning, Suzanne Kemmer, 1990
7
Current Approaches to African Linguistics
... "they bit themselves" Recall our earlier statement about the devocalization of i before /-a-/ and a consonant, (see the data in (7) and the following discussion.) That itself was a special situation, since i does not devocalize unless surrounded  ...
David Odden, 1987
8
Daniel Jones, Selected Works
An alternative pronunciation of the tone _ applied to a vowel l is to devocalize the vowel entirely. Vowels marked may always be devocalized; such devocalization is, however, particularly frequent when the vowel of the preceding syllable is ...
Daniel Jones, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, 2002
9
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in ...
... a purely Germanic phenomenon, any argument for an inherited Sievers' Law is substantially weakened: since the converse is proven to devocalize Proto- Germanic *i except after a heavy sequence, it would, therefore, be sufficient on its own ...
P. J. Barber, Peter Jeffrey Barber, 2013
10
WORD JUDGE USA
... DEVITALIZED DEVITALIZES DEVITALIZING DEVITRIFICATION DEVITRIFICATIONS DEVITRIFIED DEVITRIFIES DEVITRIFY DEVITRIFYING DEVOCALIZE DEVOCALIZED DEVOCALIZES DEVOCALIZING DEVOICE DEVOICED DEVOICES ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEVOCALIZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term devocalize is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Oregon Lawmakers Debate Whether To Ban Declaw Procedures
The measure would also prohibit surgery meant to devocalize dogs. That procedure is apparently so rare that few people objected to an ... «Northwest Public Radio, Jun 15»
2
Oregon Looks To Ban Pet Debarking, Declawing
In the last five years, several states have taken up regulating or banning surgeries to declaw cats or devocalize dogs, also known as ... «Eugene Weekly, Jun 15»
3
Editorial: Legislature should let pet owners and vets decide
So it is with House Bill 3494, which would make it illegal under most circumstances to declaw a cat or devocalize a dog. The measure has been ... «Bend Bulletin, Jun 15»
4
Poodle secretly hound-dogging around
Two years ago California enacted the nation's first law that prohibits landlords from requiring tenants to declaw or devocalize their cats and ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jan 14»
5
Iditarod Mushers Kill Thousands of Dogs
Some mushers devocalize their dogs, a cruel procedure that causes dogs lasting suffering. Some cut the animals' canine teeth, a painful ... «Care2.com, Mar 13»
6
Should people be allowed to devocalize their pets?
When Sue Perry adopted her dog Porter two and a half years ago from a rescue group, she noticed he had a hoarse, raspy bark. «CBS News, Nov 12»
7
California Law Blocks Mandatory Declawing of Pets
Landlords in California can no longer force tenants to declaw or devocalize their pets as a condition of renting a property, thanks to a new ... «Lawyers.com Blog, Oct 12»
8
California's Ban on Hounding of Bears Is A Response to State …
Brown signed into law include, SB 1229, that prohibits landlords from requiring renters to declaw their cats or devocalize their dogs; SB 1500, ... «Earth Island Journal, Oct 12»
9
California Renters Won't Have To Declaw, Devocalize Pets
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation barring landlords from forcing renters to declaw or devocalize their pets ... «CBS Local, Sep 12»
10
Schwarzenegger vetoes landlord-renter declawing-debarking bill
... owners to declaw or devocalize their animals as a condition of tenancy. In his veto statement, the governor said, "I support the goal of this bill, ... «Los Angeles Times, Oct 10»

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