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nasalize

American  
[ney-zuh-lahyz] / ˈneɪ zəˌlaɪz /
especially British, nasalise

verb (used with object)

nasalized, nasalizing
  1. to pronounce as a nasal sound.


verb (used without object)

nasalized, nasalizing
  1. to pronounce normally oral sounds as nasal sounds.

nasalize British  
/ ˈneɪzəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to pronounce nasally

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of nasalize

First recorded in 1840–50; nasal 1 + -ize

Example Sentences

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But just as often, the vocals are squeezed, nasalized, multiplied, pitch-shifted or radically disembodied.

From New York Times Sep. 5, 2018

In this recording, the instrument sounds with a rich, full voice slightly nasalized by those vibrating wires.

From Time Magazine Archive

In G. the nominative and oblique plural for all nouns are formed by adding ō to the oblique form singular, but in the neuter strong forms the oblique singular is nasalized.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

This is taken from the old system that the Jesuits used to record these languages, and represents a long, nasalized, unrounded 'o'.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

Practically all sounds, however, may be nasalized, not only the vowels—nasalized vowels are common in all parts of the world—but such sounds as l or z.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

This nasalizing makes them, in fact, distinct elements; and the primary sounds of the language may therefore be reckoned at fourteen.

From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Hale, Horatio

Our Southern accent, with its drawling of words and slurring of consonants, our Middle-Western accent, with its stressed articulation of "r's" and its nasalizing tendencies, are instances of this persistence.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Footnote 17: Aside from the involuntary nasalizing of all voiced sounds in the speech of those that talk with a “nasal twang.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

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