DEVOICE

devoice

(verb) utter with tense vocal chords

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

devoice (third-person singular simple present devoices, present participle devoicing, simple past and past participle devoiced)

(transitive, phonetics) To pronounce a word with little movement of the vocal cords

(transitive, Internet) To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

6 May 2025

HEEDLESS

(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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