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occluse

occluse adjective: shut; closed.

Adjective

occluse (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) shut; closed
    • [it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC

Origin of occluse

From Latin occlusus. See occlude.

Words formed from occluse

Questions about occluse

What does occluse mean?
Occluse means shut; closed.
What part of speech is occluse?
Occluse is an adjective.

Words near occluse in the dictionary

  1. occlusal
  2. occlusal guard
  3. occlusal guards
  4. occlusally
  5. occlusals
  6. occluse
  7. occlusion
  8. occlusion bodies
  9. occlusion body
  10. occlusional
  11. occlusions

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