verb🔗ShareTo express with the voice, to utter."The baby started to vocalize, making cooing sounds to get her mother's attention. "languagecommunicationsoundlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat."We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them."animalsoundbiologycommunicationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo sing without using words."The bird vocalized a beautiful melody in the morning. "musicentertainmentsoundactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo turn a consonant into a vowel."In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable."phoneticslanguagelinguisticsgrammarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make a sound voiced rather than voiceless."To practice pronouncing the vowel sounds correctly, the teacher asked the students to vocalize each sound separately. "phoneticslanguagecommunicationsoundlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)"The teacher asked the students to vocalize the Hebrew text by adding the correct niqqud below the consonants. "languagewritinglinguisticsphoneticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading