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belted l
ach laut
voice
voicelessly
visarga
voicelessness
final obstruent devoicing
tenuis
sh sound
vocal
verner's law
aphonous
surd
yorkshire assimilation
fortis
eclipsis
emphatic
voicing
unvoiced
speechless
preaspiration
Definitions:
Adjective
unvoiced
voiceless
surd
hard
Definition: produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'"
disenfranchised
disfranchised
voiceless
voteless
Definition: deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote; "labor was voiceless"; "disenfrenchised masses took to the streets"
breathed
voiceless
Definition: uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"
aphonic
voiceless
Definition: being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
Definition: Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.