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VOICED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Produced with vibration of the vocal cords
Example:
voiced consonants such as 'b' and 'g' and 'z'
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
unvoiced (produced without vibration of the vocal cords)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb voice
Context examples:
They had voiced a kindred intellect and spirit, and as such I had received them into a camaraderie of the mind; but now their place was in my heart.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Then came archers of the guard, shrill-voiced women of the camp, English pages with their fair skins and blue wondering eyes, dark-robed friars, lounging men-at-arms, swarthy loud-tongued Gascon serving-men, seamen from the river, rude peasants of the Medoc, and becloaked and befeathered squires of the court, all jostling and pushing in an ever-changing, many-colored stream, while English, French, Welsh, Basque, and the varied dialects of Gascony and Guienne filled the air with their babel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her training warned her of peril and of wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring; while her instincts rang clarion-voiced through her being, impelling her to hurdle caste and place and gain to this traveller from another world, to this uncouth young fellow with lacerated hands and a line of raw red caused by the unaccustomed linen at his throat, who, all too evidently, was soiled and tainted by ungracious existence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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