Assibilate
ahd-5
transitive verb.
To pronounce with a hissing sound; make sibilant.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To render sibilant, as a sound; change into a sibilant or hissing sound; alter, as a sound, by the phonetic process called assibilation.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a
sibilant
sound or sounds.
verb.
To change by
assibilation
.
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verb.
insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound)
verb.
change into a sibilant
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
change
sibilate
verb-form
assibilated
assibilating