Usually means: Add lip rounding to sound.
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  1. labialize: Merriam-Webster
  2. labialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. labialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. labialize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. labialize: Vocabulary.com
  6. labialize: Wordnik
  7. labialize: Wiktionary
  8. labialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. labialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Labialize, labialize: Dictionary.com
  11. Labialize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. labialize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. labialize: Rhymezone
  14. Labialize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. labialize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. labialize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. labialize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. labialize: Encyclopedia

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  1. labialize: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (labialize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To round, make (a sound, notably a consonant) labial.

Similar:
round, labialise, labiate, buccalize, dentilabialize, vocalize, glottalize, Lall, mouth, give tongue, more...

Opposite:
coronal, velarize, pharyngealize

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Similar:
round, labialise, labiate, buccalize, dentilabialize, vocalize, glottalize, Lall, mouth, give tongue, more...

Opposite:
coronal, velarize, pharyngealize



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