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单词 ventriloquize
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ventriloquizev.

Brit. /vɛnˈtrɪləkwʌɪz/, U.S. /vɛnˈtrɪləˌkwaɪz/
Etymology: formed as ventriloquist n. + -ize suffix.
1. intransitive. To use or practise ventriloquism; to speak or produce sounds in the manner of a ventriloquist; to cast the voice.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak as if from the abdomen
hariolate1677
ventriloquize1832
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 297 When the corn-crake..ventriloquises in the corn or grass.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 148/2 The horses capered and neighed and ventriloquized right and left, from an excess of animation.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 71 Leave thy caverned grumblings,..and discourse eloquence from thy central omphalos, like Pythoness ventriloquising.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 219 Some say in like manner that the starling ventriloquizes.
figurative.1832 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 21 July I have no admiration for the practice of ventriloquizing through another man's mouth.1890 Spectator 1 Nov. It looks as if the new Radicalism had entered into his soul and were ventriloquising through his organisation.
2. transitive. To utter as a ventriloquist.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say as if from the abdomen
ventriloquize1865
1865 Spectator 14 Jan. 45 It is a falsehood ventriloquizing truth.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iv. 131 The little Temple, up which the priests..crept to ventriloquise behind the deceptive statue their lying oracles.
1900 Daily News 18 July 2/5 He not only mimics but ventriloquises his imitations.

Derivatives

venˈtriloquizing n. Also attributive.
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1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert II. 52 Mrs. Mervin's ventriloquising powers, exhibited in the church.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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