Apostrophize

1. v. i. To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe.
2. p. pr. & vb. n. To address by apostrophe.
3. p. pr. & vb. n. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (‘) or apostrophes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.