Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pronounce (a speech sound) with the lips touching , nearly touching, or pursed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make labial; give a labial character to; change to utterance with the lips.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Phonetics) To modify by contraction of the lip opening.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
round , make (a sound, notably aconsonant )labial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pronounce with rounded lips
Etymologies
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From labial (from Latin labium ("lip")) + the causative suffix -ize.
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