vocalize

present singular third person vocalizes · participle present vocalizing · participle past vocalized · past vocalized · alternative vocalise

1. To express with the voice, to utter.

   Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]

   1876, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, preface to the 1876 edition

2. To produce noises or calls from the throat.

   We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.

3. entertainmentTo sing without using words.
4. human sciencesTo turn a consonant into a vowel.

   In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.

5. datedhuman sciencesTo make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
6. human sciencesTo add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)

   Synonyms: outspeak