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- verb Present participle of
nasalize .
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Examples
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Our Southern accent, with its drawling of words and slurring of consonants, our Middle-Western accent, with its stressed articulation of "r's" and its nasalizing tendencies, are instances of this persistence.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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Aside from the involuntary nasalizing of all voiced sounds in the speech of those that talk with a nasal twang.
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This nasalizing makes them, in fact, distinct elements; and the primary sounds of the language may therefore be reckoned at fourteen.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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How rare to hear a speaker avoid the common slurving of ngs by nasalizing them!
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N], (S) like French final _m_ or _n_, nasalizing the preceding vowel.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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