1. to make a voiced sound voiceless in pronunciation
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• In some dialects, speakers devoice the final consonant in words like ‘dog’.
• The linguist studied how children devoice certain sounds when learning to speak.
• German speakers often devoice final obstruents in their native language.
• The phonetic process can devoice a normally voiced consonant.
• Students learned how to devoice sounds in their pronunciation class.