<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>vocalized, vocalizing.</li><li>to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.</li><li>to endow with a voice; cause to utter.</li><li>Phonetics: to voice.</li><li>to change into a vowel (consonantalize).</li><li>(of Hebrew, Arabic, and other writing systems that do not usually indicate vowels) to furnish with vowels or vowel points.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>vocalized, vocalizing.</li><li>to use the voice, as in speech or song.</li><li>to sing without uttering words, especially to warm up the voice, practice vowel sounds, etc., before a performance.</li><li>to sing scales, arpeggios, trills, or the like, usually to a solmization syllable or a vowel sound.</li><li>Phonetics: to become changed into a vowel.</li></ul>