DIPHTHONGISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diphthongise mean? 

• DIPHTHONGISE (verb)
  The verb DIPHTHONGISE has 1 sense:

1. change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

  Familiarity information: DIPHTHONGISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPHTHONGISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they diphthongise    ... he / she / it diphthongises   
Past simple: diphthongised   
Past participle: diphthongised   
-ing form: diphthongising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

diphthongise; diphthongize

Context example:

This vowel diphthongized in Germanic

Hypernyms (to "diphthongise" is one way to...):

change; shift; switch (lay aside, abandon, or leave for another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diphthongise"):

break (undergo breaking)

Sentence frame:

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