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apostrophize
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a·pos·tro·phize  (-pstr-fz)
tr. & intr.v. a·pos·tro·phized, a·pos·tro·phiz·ing, a·pos·tro·phiz·es
To address by or speak or write in apostrophe.
apostrophize or -phise
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[-phizing, -phized] or -phising, -phised Rhetoric to address an apostrophe to
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Verb1.apostrophizeapostrophize - use an apostrophe                    
apostrophise
write - communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week"
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In "Good Morning, Revolution" (1932), for example, he apostrophizes revolution as a new "buddy": "Listen, Revolution, / We're buddies, see-- / Together, / We can take everything/ .
Langston Hughes's Radical Poetry and the "End of Race" by Dawahare, Anthony / MELUS
In a poem titled "Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife" Susan Carver apostrophizes to the unknown about how they are to rear these two slave boys, and what type of life can they direct them toward.
Carver: A Life in Poems by Martin, Herbert Woodward / African American Review
97), the speaker apostrophizes on the metamorphosing powers of gold.
Moving the Monarch. The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Camoes's Lusiadas by E SILVA, JOHN DE OLIVEIRA / Renaissance Quarterly
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