Usually means: Make sound with back tongue.
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  1. velarize: Merriam-Webster
  2. velarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. velarize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. velarize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. velarize: Wiktionary
  6. velarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. velarize: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. velarize: Dictionary.com
  9. velarize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (velarize)

verb:  (phonology) To raise the back of the tongue toward the velum while articulating another consonant, such as the l of English pool.
verb:  (phonology) To replace a (usually more front) consonant with a velar.

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