Meaning

(transitive) 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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) 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.
2. To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.

Example Sentences

[S]he resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent hand-maidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.

"He fully believes he is one of the aristocracy! And he is so condescending to the son he so egregiously deludes that you might suppose him the most virtuous of parents. Oh!" said the old lady, apostrophizing him with infinite vehemence. "I could bite you!"

“Ah! poultry, poultry! You little thought,” said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophising the fowl in the dish, “when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you. […]”

Just as I could not shed tears, so was I incapable of apostrophizing God in my despair.

Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

Word Forms

• apostrophizes
• apostrophizing
• apostrophized
• apostrophise

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When Should You Use Apostrophize?

Use apostrophize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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