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Word: Dissimilate
Speech Type: Verb
mid 19th century: from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin similis ‘like, similar’, on the pattern of assimilate
dɪˈsɪmɪleɪt
change (a sound or sounds in a word) to another when the word originally had identical sounds near each other (e.g. in taper, which derives from papyrus, the p is dissimilated to t).
Short Definition:change sound or sounds in word to another when word originally had identical sounds near each other
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