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| voice·less [ vóyssləss ] |
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1. saying nothing: maintaining a silence
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2. having no say: having no vote or influence
  the voiceless people in a dictatorship
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3. having no voice: not endowed with a voice
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4. phonetics pronounced without vibration of vocal cords: describes a consonant or vowel pronounced without passing air across the vocal cords and creating audible vibrations, as is the "s" sound in the word "hiss"
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| voice·less·ly adverb |
| voice·less·ness noun |
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