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verb (apostrophizes, apostrophizing, apostrophized)
  1. To use the apostrophe figure of speech in writing or speech
He would apostrophize execessively which made his writing tiresome.
  1. To add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters.
  2. Turning away from.
:: (c1850): You little thought," said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, "when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens.
:: Also used by Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Bronte.
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