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de·voice

 (dē-vois′)
tr.v. de·voiced, de·voic·ing, de·voic·es
To pronounce (a normally voiced sound) without vibration of the vocal cords so as to make it wholly or partly voiceless.
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devoiced

(diːˈvɔɪst)
adj
(Phonetics & Phonology) phonetics having been made voiceless
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The measurement of crumb porosity was performed by determination of the differences between the volumes of uncompressed and compressed crumb, which was devoiced of pores by kneading.
Syllable final devoicing is not considered a problem for intelligibility, as /v/ is also partially devoiced in NSE.
When [r] is preceded by a voiceless consonant, a partially or totally devoiced [r] is employed.
2013) that Tessob may have had an alternative stem with a doubled (and thus devoiced) final consonant.
Additionally, as an experiment in the present paper suggests (see Figure 2), the devoiced allophones are only the third frequent type of realization, after modal vowels and complete vowel loss.
Instead of the SV-Elision and devoicing being blocked by the addition of a word-final syllable, as would be expected, they both apply and the voiceless feature of the now elided and devoiced /-t/ spreads to the initial consonant of the clitic.
Marginal sounds are those which are slightly devoiced or nasal and they get the grade 4, damaged sounds are rated 5 and 6 and missing sounds are rated 7.
INTRODUCTION: Indirect laryngoscopy which was invented by Manuel Garcia, in 1854 and further devoiced by Dr.
US, 2yrs crossing to college] In (5), the references to looking like a language and sounding like a race/ethnicity include pronouncing a fricative [35] in 'Yes' and a devoiced [s] in place of /z/ for the second sibilant in 'citizen', or sporting a laborer's wide brimmed hat or a tattoo of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Writing in 'white ink' is an expedient that can give articulation to an otherwise untenable atavistic agenda, one's own-most jouissance, which is to say the defaced and devoiced female text.