verb Download 🔗Share To express with the voice, to utter. Examples : "The baby vocalized her hunger with loud cries. " language communication sound Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat. Examples : "We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them." animal sound biology physiology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To sing without using words. Examples : "The opera singer vocalized for ten minutes before starting the aria, practicing the melody without words. " music entertainment sound action language communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To turn a consonant into a vowel. Examples : "In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable." phonetics linguistics language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless. Examples : "She vocalized the "s" at the end of "cats," making it a voiced /z/ sound instead of a voiceless /s/ sound. " phonetics language sound communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew) Examples : "The Hebrew teacher vocalized the ancient text by adding the niqqud marks below and above the consonants. " language linguistics writing phonetics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading