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medialize

verb

Etymology

From medial + -ize.

  1. borrowed from mediālis
  2. suffixed as medialize — “medial + ize”

Definitions

  1. To become more medial.

    • Failure of nasal bones to medialize is due to an obstructive phenomenon between the two nasal bones.

  2. To render (a consonant) more medial.

    • It is quite possible that the earlier Abenakis may have only partially medialized their consonants after vowels.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA