[n. af-ri-kit; v. af-ri-keyt] 
noun, verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing. Phonetics| 1. | Also called affricative. a speech sound comprising occlusion, plosion, and frication, as either of the ch-sounds in church and the j-sound in joy. |
| 2. | to change the pronunciation of (a stop) to an affricate, esp. by releasing (the stop) slowly. |
| af·fri·cate (āf'rĭ-kĭt) n. A complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative; for example, the initial sounds of child and joy. Also called affricative. [Latin affricātus, past participle of affricāre, to rub against : ad-, ad- + fricāre, to rub.] |
affricate
a consonant sound that begins as a stop (sound with complete obstruction of the breath stream) and concludes with a fricative (sound with incomplete closure and a sound of friction). Examples of affricates are the ch sound in English chair, which may be represented phonetically as a t sound followed by sh; the j in English jaw (a d followed by the zh sound heard in French jour or in English azure); and the ts sound often heard in German and spelled with z as in zehn, meaning ten
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