"metathesize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From metathesis + -ize.",
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      "form": "metathesizes",
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      "form": "metathesizing",
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      "form": "metathesized",
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          "ref": "1939, Morris Swadesh & C. F. Voegelin, A Problem in Phonological Alternation, in Language, Vol. 15, No. 1",
          "text": "Cases like mu·yh : mu·hyut may be accounted for under a rule that clusters of h plus sonorant metathesize in word-final position."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, James W. Bright, Thraf-Caik, in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 3, No. 3",
          "text": "The significance of noticing the existence of this adjective tharf by the side of the metathesized form thraf is of course apparent"
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          "ref": "1962, Gene M. Schramm, An Outline of Classical Arabic Verb Structure, in Language, Vol. 38, No. 4",
          "text": "If the first of two identical consonants in sequence is postconsonantal and the second intervocalic, metathesize the first with the following vowel (geminate roots only)."
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        "To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word."
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        "(linguistics) To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word."
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          "word": "metathesise"
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        "(linguistics) To undergo or to subject to metathesis; of sounds, to switch positions in a word."
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      "word": "metathesise"
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  "word": "metathesize"
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