apostrophize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: a=pos=tro=phize

CIDE DICTIONARY

apostrophize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apostrophized (); p. pr. & vb. n. Apostrophizing.].

•  To address by apostrophe.  [1913 Webster]
•  To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.  [1913 Webster]

apostrophize, v. i. 

 To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

apostrophize

Allocution

VB speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke, ball, salute, call to, halloo, take aside, take by the button, talk to in private, lecture, Int, soho!, halloo!, hey!, hist!.

Soliloquy

VB Soliloquize, say to oneself, talk to oneself, say aside, think aloud, apostrophize.