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Webster 1913 Edition


Syllabize

Syl′la-bize

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Verb.
T.
To syllabify.
Howell.

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syllabize

syllabize

English

Verb

syllabize (third-person singular simple present syllabizes, present participle syllabizing, simple past and past participle syllabized)

  1. To syllabify.
    • 1920, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, The Classical Journal, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, page 361
      No pupil who will syllabize and pronounce carefully will misspell such words as "accommodate" and "professor."

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  • syllabize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913