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for occlusive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
occlusive
adj 1: tending to occlude
n 1: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive,
plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive]
[ant: continuant, continuant consonant]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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