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Vocalized

Vocalize \Vo"cal*ize\ (v[=o]"kal*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vocalized (v[=o]"kal*[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Vocalizing (v[=o]"kal*[imac]*z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. vocaliser.]

  1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

    It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath.
    --Holder.

  2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.

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vocalized

vb. (en-past of: vocalize)

Usage examples of "vocalized".

Though Ken and Todd had never vocalized it' they knew that they were Landreau's particular target.

Tall Eyebrow executed two symbols quickly, and vocalized a long, complex trill.

At her age, coherent thought was intermittent and, as she had yet to talk, not vocalized but he `touched' more in her mind than he expected.

At night he listened for one of their rare sounds, the qwok-qwok-qwok, hardly vocalized, that had given them their name.

They vocalized all together, by tens and hundreds, their weak voices blending into a vast muffled shout, that echoed out over the purple flood tide and reverberated from the chasms of the plateau.

The vocalized drumming picked up the sound, giving it resonance and depth.

He could even use the star-shaped touch readers in a primitive fashion — at least to point himself in the right direction for searches of indexed material — and he could plug himself into the periphery of a group conference and get something out of it beyond the shorthand information contained in vocalized talk.