devoice

A verb used in linguistics to indicate the act of making a speech sound voiceless, or to remove the vocal cord vibration from a sound.

• 🇨🇳语言学中表示使语音变为清音或去除声带振动的动作。

1. Pronounce without voice C2 formal

   To articulate a speech sound without vibration of the vocal cords, making it voiceless.

   • In some dialects, speakers devoice final consonants.
   • Linguists study how languages devoice certain sounds.
   • He devoiced the 'd' in 'asked' during rapid speech.

   🇨🇳清音化

   反义词: voice

• devoiced past participle
• devoiced past simple
• devoicing present participle
• devoices third person singular