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de·voice    Audio Help   [dee-vois] Pronunciation Key verb, -voiced, -voic·ing. Phonetics
–verb (used with object)
1.to pronounce (an ordinarily voiced speech sound) without vibration of the vocal cords; make voiceless.
–verb (used without object)
2.to devoice a speech sound.
Also, unvoice.


[Origin: 1930–35; de- + voice]
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de·voice    Audio Help   (dē-vois')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   de·voiced, de·voic·ing, de·voic·es
To pronounce (a normally voiced sound) without vibration of the vocal chords so as to make it wholly or partly voiceless.

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devoice

verb
utter with tense vocal chords [ant: sound

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