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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To round (a speech sound); make labial.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make labial; give a labial character to; change to utterance with the lips.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To round, make (a sound, notably a consonant) labial.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Phonetics) To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pronounce with rounded lips

Etymologies

  1. From labial (from Latin labium ("lip")) + the causative suffix -ize. (Wiktionary)

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  1. delabialize

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  1. articulate
  1. enunciate
  1. say
  1. sound out
  1. pronounce
  1. enounce

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  1. labiate
  1. round

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