geminate in English
verb
1
double or repeat (a speech sound).
Because gemination is common in Dravidian languages, double consonants in written English are often geminated : ‘sum-mer’ for summer and ‘sil-lee’ for silly.
adjective
1
consisting of identical adjacent speech sounds, especially consonants; doubled.
Some geminates , however, are clearly more morphologically distinct than others are.
verb
Use "geminate" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "geminate" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "geminate", or refer to the context using the word "geminate" in the English Dictionary.