Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desemanticize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-se-man-ti-cize
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.

verb

To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.

Example Sentences

"The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning."
"[…] that of preceding and modifying another word, and in gaining the new grammatical meaning of modification. They desemanticise, in losing the descriptive meaning that head nouns have in descriptive use, […]"

Inflected Forms

desemanticizes (present, singular) desemanticizing (participle, present) desemanticized (participle, past) desemanticized (past)

Frequently Paired Words

desemantize

Questions

What does desemanticize mean?: To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.

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