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Verb: devoice  dee'voys
  1. Utter with tense vocal chords
    "There is one final environment in which vowels devoice"

Derived forms: devoicing, devoices, devoiced

Type of: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out

Antonym: vocalise [Brit]

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Devon
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