to harmonize
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4.2
- verb
- /ˈhɑːrmənaɪz/
- Specialized
- Students can learn to harmonize and improvise by ear as part of each day's warm-up period.
- harmonizing instruments
- harmonized ensembles
- attempting to harmonize
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
- And so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
- They need to quite literally harmonize to Harmo Chonta, right?
- No, I sing like a phrase of that and harmonize with Lily.
- And so my argument is that sometimes the tiniest little amount might be what that person needs to kind of harmonize the orchestra.
- Well, on the first note, BI harmonized it with a minor second below it, which made it want to expand.
- Evelyn Glenny, A percussionist, saying, like, let me figure out if I could harmonize Bach on a snare drum.
- You see how it all harmonize it together and then the chorus.
Examples
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When the Andrews sisters harmonize the last notes, we stop and look at one another.
Fiction book (1991) -
And so my family grew up harmonizing, singing gospel, things like that.
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We can hear a song and find our part and harmonize with it.
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No, I sing like a phrase of that and harmonize with Lily.
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I like it when you harmonize with me on the whistling.
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Let me tell you guys, Ari tries to harmonize with rap songs.
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I sang as though born to it that day, harmonizing alongside Val.
Fiction book (1999) -
Community gatherings as simple and symbolic as singing together blend and harmonize the many different voices of a community.
Academic text (2005) -
Michael Henry and Justin Robinett share the same piano while harmonizing alongside each other.
Blog text (18) -
The choir will harmonize beautifully during the concert next weekend.
Synonyms
1
7.5
Change which parts or instruments play the notes in a chord to make a different sound
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7.2
To make notes or voices sound together in harmony
1
7.8
Play or sing together in harmony
Antonyms
How Harmonious
- Specialized
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6.8
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Harmonize comes from an old Greek root harmon- meaning 'to fit together' and is the same root as harmony. So to harmonize musical notes is to make them 'fit together' and sound good at the same time.