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Verb
phonetize (third-person singular simple present phonetizes, present participle phonetizing, simple past and past participle phonetized)
- (transitive) To represent (something) by phonetic signs.
1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page 195:I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England.
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