devocalize
Verb
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Verb
devocalize (devocalizes, present participle devocalizing; past and past participle devocalized)
- (transitive) To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
- H. Sweet
- If we take a high vowel […] and devocalize it, we obtain a hiss […]
- H. Sweet
- (transitive) To reduce the volume of the vocalizations of (an animal) by surgically removing tissue from its vocal cords.
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