Assibilate
to change into or pr-nounce with the accompaniment of a sound or sounds.
to change by -ssibilation.
to become a or a sound containing a .
verb (phonetics)
(intransitive) (of a speech sound) to be changed into a sibilant
(transitive) to pr-nounce (a speech sound) with or as a sibilant
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