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gutturize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make (a sound) in the throat; to gutturalize.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • July 7, 1832, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Greek - dual, neuter plural, and verb singular - theta How particularly fine the hard theta is in an English termination, as in that grand word — Death — for which the Germans gutturize a sound that puts you in mind of nothing but a loathsome toad.

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History

Etymology

From Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ize.