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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ptyalise is a verb meaning "expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth". It carries one recorded sense.
expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth
“The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ptyalise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.