Definition of "nasalizing" []

• Present participle of nasalize. (verb)

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• "Our Southern accent, with its drawling of words and slurring of consonants, our Middle-Western accent, with its stressed articulation of "r's" and its nasalizing tendencies, are instances of this persistence."
• "Aside from the involuntary nasalizing of all voiced sounds in the speech of those that talk with a “nasal twang."
• "This nasalizing makes them, in fact, distinct elements; and the primary sounds of the language may therefore be reckoned at fourteen."