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DISSIMILATE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dissimilate ... he / she / it dissimilates
Past simple: dissimilated
-ing form: dissimilating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become dissimilar or less similar
Example:
These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dissimilate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dissimilate"):
differentiate (become distinct and acquire a different character)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
assimilate (become similar to one's environment)
Derivation:
dissimilation (a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make dissimilar; cause to become less similar
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dissimilate" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Antonym:
assimilate (make similar)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
Example:
These consonants dissimilate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "dissimilate" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Domain category:
phonetics (the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Antonym:
assimilate (become similar in sound)
Derivation:
dissimilation (a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other)