Synonyms for apostrophize
- verb
Definitions
- v. 1
To deliver an apostrophe (a speech, typically exclamatory) to someone, especially someone not present in person as a participant in the conversation, even someone imaginary.
Related words
- Other spellings
- apostrophise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- apostrophized
e.g. apostrophized → addressed, accosted…
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To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- address Please fill in your name and address on this form.
- accost You never know who might accost you on a dark street.
By length
- 6 letters
- accost2
- 7 letters
- address2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (accost2 = 2 syllables).