gutturize

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verb

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

OriginLatin guttur →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbgutturize (third-person singular simple present gutturizes, present participle gutturizing, simple past and past participle gutturized)

present singular third person gutturizes · participle present gutturizing · participle past gutturized · past gutturized

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

    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.

Origin

  1. Latinguttur“throat”
  2. Englishgutturize

From Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ize.

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APA

gutturize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gutturize

MLA

“gutturize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gutturize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gutturize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gutturize.

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