VOICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does voiced mean? 

• VOICED (adjective)
  The adjective VOICED has 1 sense:

1. produced with vibration of the vocal cords

  Familiarity information: VOICED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOICED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produced with vibration of the vocal cords

Synonyms:

soft; sonant; voiced

Context example:

voiced consonants such as 'b' and 'g' and 'z'

Antonym:

unvoiced (produced without vibration of the vocal cords)

 Context examples 

“If trouble comes, will you stand by?” I asked impulsively, for he had voiced my own fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But one regret she voiced in the whole letter, and it was a bitter one to Martin.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stiffness, and the cold, and dark.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Zilla, on the other hand, rocked more rapidly, and for the first time, in sharp little yelps, voiced her pain.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Suddenly there came swelling up a deep-voiced, rollicking chorus from somewhere out of the darkness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a time each blow brought a yelp from him; but fear passed into terror, until finally his yelps were voiced in unbroken succession, unconnected with the rhythm of the punishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This did not save me from more jokes, either; for a husky-voiced gentleman with a rough face, who had been eating out of a sandwich-box nearly all the way, except when he had been drinking out of a bottle, said I was like a boa-constrictor who took enough at one meal to last him a long time; after which, he actually brought a rash out upon himself with boiled beef.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of course, there were many light-footed, shrill-voiced American girls, handsome, lifeless-looking English ditto, and a few plain but piquante French demoiselles, likewise the usual set of traveling young gentlemen who disported themselves gaily, while mammas of all nations lined the walls and smiled upon them benignly when they danced with their daughters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The long, many-pillared room, with its mirrors and chandeliers, was crowded with full-blooded, loud-voiced men-about-town, all in the same dark evening dress with white silk stockings, cambric shirt-fronts, and little, flat chapeau-bras under their arms.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She drew a big breath like a child, as she voiced to the uttermost all she cared to demand of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)