Synonyms

ventriloquize

American

[ven-tril-uh-kwahyz] / vɛnˈtrɪl əˌkwaɪz /

especially British, ventriloquise

verb (used with or without object)

ventriloquized, ventriloquizing

to speak or sound in the manner of a ventriloquist.

ventriloquize British

/ vɛnˈtrɪləˌkwaɪz /

verb

to produce (sounds) in the manner of a ventriloquist

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Etymology

Origin of ventriloquize

1835–45; ventriloqu(y) ( def. ) + -ize

Example Sentences

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Or I can try to sort of ventriloquize through what I think a prose writer would do.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023

But Wearing does something startling: She gets the mother to ventriloquize the boys and the boys their mother.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Why not experiment, mess around a little, throw your voice, ventriloquize, pick up one form and put it down and move on to another?

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Before a kid can read or write, message tees provide an opportunity for a parent to ventriloquize at whim.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2018

And then he would ventriloquize once more to himself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

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