vocalize

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: vo=cal=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

vocalize, v. t. [Cf. F. vocaliser.].

•  To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath."  [1913 Webster]
•  To practice singing on the vowel sounds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vocalize, v. (also -ise)
1 tr. a form (a sound) or utter (a word) with the voice. b make sonant (f is vocalized into v).
2 intr. utter a vocal sound.
3 tr. write (Hebrew etc.) with vowel points.
4 intr. Mus. sing with several notes to one vowel.

Derivative

vocalization n. vocalizer n.

THESAURUS

vocalize

anthem, articulate, ballad, breathe, carol, chant, chatty, chime, chirp, chirrup, choir, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, croon, deliver, descant, disclose, do-re-mi, emit, enunciate, express, fling off, formulate, garrulous, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, hum, hung, hymn, impart, intonate, intone, let out, lilt, lip, loquacious, minstrel, out with, phonate, phrase, pipe, pour forth, present, pronounce, psalm, put forth, put in words, quaver, raise, roulade, say, serenade, set forth, shake, silver-tongued, sing, sing in chorus, slick, smooth, sol-fa, solmizate, sound, talk, talkative, tell, throw off, tremolo, trill, troll, tune, tweedle, tweedledee, twit, twitter, utter, verbalize, voice, voluble, warble, well, whisper, whistle, windy, word, yodel

ROGET THESAURUS

vocalize

Voice

VB utter, breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry, ejaculate, rap out, vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear.