transitive & intransitive verb . To address by or speak or write in apostrophe.

In grammar: To omit a letter or letters. To mark such omission with the sign (').

In rhetoric, to address by apostrophe.

To make an apostrophe or short digressive address in speaking; speak in the manner of an apostrophe.

Also spelled apostrophise.

intransitive verb. To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.

transitive verb. To address by apostrophe.

transitive verb. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes.

verb. to use the apostrophe figure of speech in writing or speech

verb. to add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters

verb. use an apostrophe

"He would have stopped all work to beg for extra pay at the merest suggestion of such a thing; but as it was he raised both fists and lapsed into his own tongue to apostrophize the ruffian who dared jostle King."

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