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devoice

 

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Verb devoice has 1 sense
  1. devoice - utter with tense vocal chords
    --1 is one way to
    pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
    Antonyms: voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something

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devoice

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to remove or alter the voice or vocal characteristics of something or someone.

Example sentence: The audio editor used advanced technology to devoice the background noise and enhance the clarity of the spoken words.

Sense 2: in linguistics, to convert a voiced sound into a voiceless sound.

Example sentence: In English, the letter "b" is sometimes devoiced at the end of words, resulting in a slight "p" sound.

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