unvoice
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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to pronounce without vibration of the vocal cords
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another word for devoice
Etymology
Origin of unvoice
Example Sentences
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For the former "John Wick" and "Fall Guy" fight coordinator, putting grown-up Short Round through his paces was an unvoiced desire that was finally realized.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025
You learn this, and how to love, by being loved even with your growing ledger of broken hearts, rushes to judgment, reckless decisions, unvoiced apologies and selfish deeds.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
The event also reaffirms Antonio’s unvoiced yearning to reevaluate his uprooting — a need depicted throughout the film with magical realist underwater sequences that invoke an otherworldly atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
But what kind of attention do we owe — what kind of attention is it even possible to pay — to the unvoiced?
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2021
When he was younger, he had admired people with moneyed childhoods and foreign accents, but he had come to sense an unvoiced yearning in them, a sad search for something they could never find.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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