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DEVOICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does devoice mean?
• DEVOICE (verb)
The verb DEVOICE has 1 sense:
1. utter with tense vocal chords
Familiarity information: DEVOICE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they devoice
... he / she / it devoices
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Past simple: devoiced
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Past participle: devoiced
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-ing form: devoicing
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Past simple: devoiced
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Past participle: devoiced
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-ing form: devoicing
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Sense 1
Meaning:
Utter with tense vocal chords
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "devoice" is one way to...):
articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out (speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
voice (utter with vibrating vocal chords)
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