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vowel +‎ -ize

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vowelize (third-person singular simple present vowelizes, present participle vowelizing, simple past and past participle vowelized)

  1. (transitive) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
  2. (transitive) To insert a vowel or vowels into.
    • 2014, Imed Zitouni, Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages, page 419:
      One approach is to have experts in Arabic manually vowelize a small training set.

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