Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To subject to or undergo metathesis.
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- verb linguistics To undergo or to subject to
metathesis ; of sounds, to switch positions in a word.
Etymologies
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metathesis + -ize
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Examples
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By 1980 we had transferred the principles behind tantalum chemistry to tungsten, molybdenum, and rhenium, and had shown what type of tungsten species would metathesize olefins.
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(Dad claims not to metathesize the R and T in comfortable, but when he tried to convince us of this by pronouncing it carefully, he ended up saying something like "curmfitable".)
Literal-Minded 2008
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