ventriloquate
ventriloquate verb: to speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
Verb
ventriloquate (third-person singular simple present ventriloquates, present participle ventriloquating, simple past and past participle ventriloquated)
- To speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
- To speak in someone else's voice.
- It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).2005, Applied linguistics, Volume 26
Forms of ventriloquate
| third-person singular present | ventriloquates |
|---|---|
| present participle | ventriloquating |
| past participle | ventriloquated |
| past | ventriloquated |
Questions about ventriloquate
- What does ventriloquate mean?
- Ventriloquate means to speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
- What part of speech is ventriloquate?
- Ventriloquate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of ventriloquate?
- The past tense of ventriloquate is ventriloquated.
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