to produce (sounds) in the manner of a ventriloquist
ventriloquize in American English
(vɛnˈtrɪləˌkwaɪz)
verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: venˈtriloˌquized or venˈtriloˌquizing
to utter (words or sounds) as a ventriloquist
ventriloquize in American English
(venˈtrɪləˌkwaiz)
intransitive verb or transitive verbWord forms: -quized, -quizing
to speak or sound in the manner of a ventriloquist
Alsoesp Britventriloquise
Word origin
[1835–45; ventriloqu(y) + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catch-up, communism, ecumenical, serial, squeegee-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)
Examples of 'ventriloquize' in a sentence
ventriloquize
Many of the poems ventriloquize, slipping into the voices of better-known poets.