devoice

Verb

Verb Forms: devoiced, devoicing, devoices

• To render voiceless; to remove the vocalization from a sound.
• utter with tense vocal chords
• To pronounce a sound with little or no vibration of the vocal cords, especially a sound that is normally pronounced with such vibration (i.e. a voiced sound).
• To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.

Examples

• The silent ’K’ in ’KNOW’ seems to devoice the letter, making it a tricky word for new players.

Antonyms

voice