Definition of "vocalize"

vocalize

/ˈvoʊ.kə.laɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present vocalizes, present participle vocalizing, simple past and past participle vocalized
1. To express with the voice, to utter.
  Quotations
  Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe, […]
  1876, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, preface to the 1876 edition
2. (of animals) To produce noises or calls from the throat.
3. (music) To sing without using words.
4. (linguistics) To turn a consonant into a vowel.
5. (linguistics, dated) To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
6. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)

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