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devocalise

devocalise is the alternative form of devocalize.

Meaning of devocalize

Verb

devocalize (third-person singular simple present devocalizes, present participle devocalizing, simple past and past participle devocalized)

  1. (transitive) To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
    • If we take a high vowel […] and devocalise it, we obtain a hiss […]1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
  2. (transitive) To reduce the volume of the vocalizations of (an animal) by surgically removing tissue from its vocal cords.
    Synonyms:
    debark, disbark
  3. To remove the vocals of a song with an AI program creating a false instrumental with imperfections (vocal shadows).

Forms of devocalise

third-person singular presentdevocalises
present participledevocalising
past participledevocalised
pastdevocalised

Origin of devocalise

From de- + vocalise.

Questions about devocalise

What is devocalise the alternative form of?
Devocalise is the alternative form of devocalize.

Words near devocalise in the dictionary

  1. devnull
  2. devo
  3. devo max
  4. devo-max
  5. devocalisation
  6. devocalise
  7. devocalised
  8. devocalises
  9. devocalising
  10. devocalization
  11. devocalizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devocalise (page history and authors); devocalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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