1. third person singular present of devoice: to make a voiced sound voiceless in pronunciation
Usage: linguistics; phonetics

Examples

• The linguist devoices the final consonant in her analysis.
• This dialect devoices certain sounds at the end of words.
• The speaker devoices the ‘z’ sound, making it sound like ‘s’.
• German devoices final obstruents in many cases.
• The child devoices voiced consonants when learning to speak.