Assibilate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assibilate \As*sib"i*late\, v. t. [L. assibilatus, p. p. of
     assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss.]
     To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. --J. Peile.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  assibilate
       v 1: insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound)
       2: change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/
          sibilates in Japanese"