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  1. dissimilate

    • IPA[dɪˈsɪmɪleɪt]

    英式

    • v.
      change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).;(of a sound) undergo the process of dissimilation
    • verb: dissimilate, 3rd person present: dissimilates, gerund or present participle: dissimilating, past tense: dissimilated, past participle: dissimilated

    • 釋義

    動詞

    • 1. change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).
    • (of a sound) undergo the process of dissimilation the first ‘r’ dissimilates to ‘l’
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    • IPA[dəˈsiməˌlāt]

    美式

    • v.
      change (a sound in a word) in order to be unlike the sounds near it: in “pilgrim,” from Latin “peregrinus,” the first “r” is dissimilated to “l.”

    Oxford American Dictionary