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voice-act

voice-act verb: to act as a voice actor; to provide one’s voice.

Verb

voice-act (third-person singular simple present voice-acts, present participle voice-acting, simple past and past participle voice-acted)

  1. (intransitive) To act as a voice actor; to provide one’s voice.
    • She has also voice-acted in several children’s movies and cartoons, including Kung Fu Sock, The Fruitties Are Back and The Angry Birds Movie 2.2024 June 6, Inga Parkel, “JoJo Siwa takes on dramatic role in new horror movie premiering at Tribeca Film Festival”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
    • The star also voice-acted in many video games, such as World of Warcraft: Legion, Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition and Diablo III.2025 March 12, Heidi Parker, “Dave Mallow dead at 76: Power Rangers star passes away 'while in hospice care'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025
  2. (transitive) To provide one’s voice for (something).
    • You’re never far away from a cliche when you’re dealing with cavemen, and though Morrison labors mightily I got some unintentional laughs out of some of the LET US CALL HIM MAN OF BATS! dialogue. (It didn’t help that I voice-acted it internally in the style of Ringo Starr in CAVEMAN. But still.)2010 May 13, TIME Staff, quoting Lev Grossman, “The Comic Book Club: The Return of Bruce Wayne”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2025
    • I’m Morgan Freeman and I voice-acted this message.2016 February 19, Morgan Freeman, quotee, “Sanders and Clinton hold final rallies ahead of Nevada primary – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...

Examples of voice-act in a sentence

  • Having never voice-acted in this manner before, she said the experience was “incredible,” even though she was “way out of [her] comfort zone.”2020 March 9, Tre'vell Anderson, “How Shakina Nayfack used her voice to reclaim trans representation in animation”, in Los Angeles Times...
  • The game, including the telenovela, is fully voice-acted by a large cast of actors.2024 April 15, Rollo Romig, “A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...

Forms of voice-act

third-person singular presentvoice-acts
present participlevoice-acting
past participlevoice-acted
pastvoice-acted
alternative formvoice act

Origin of voice-act

Back-formation from voice acting or voice actor.

Questions about voice-act

What does voice-act mean?
Voice-act means to act as a voice actor; to provide one’s voice.
How do you use voice-act in a sentence?
Having never voice-acted in this manner before, she said the experience was “incredible,” even though she was “way out of [her] comfort zone.”
What part of speech is voice-act?
Voice-act is a verb.
What is the past tense of voice-act?
The past tense of voice-act is voice-acted.

Words near voice-act in the dictionary

  1. voice votes
  2. voice voting
  3. voice votings
  4. voice wrap
  5. voice wraps
  6. voice-act
  7. voice-acted
  8. voice-acting
  9. voice-activated
  10. voice-acts
  11. voice-directed warehousing

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