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occluded |
occluded front |
occludent |
occluse |
occlusion |
occlusive
| occrustate
| occult
| occult arts
| occultation
| occulted
occlusive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun occlusive has 1 sense
- occlusive(n = noun.communication) plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" is a kind of obstruent
has parts: implosion, explosion, plosion
has particulars: labial stop, glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop, click, suction stop
Derived form adjective occlusive1
Adjective occlusive has 1 sense
- occlusive(a = adj.pert) Array - tending to occlude; Array Derived forms verb occlude1, noun occlusive1
THESAURUS
occlusive
accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant, consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive, crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive, restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling, stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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