monophthongize love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To reduce in enunciation to a single sound.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, linguistics To change to a monophthong (as by removing a vowel).
  • verb intransitive, linguistics To become a monophthong.

Etymologies

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monophthong +‎ -ize

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