devocalize

To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.

Verb

  1. To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
    • If we take a high vowel […] and devocalise it, we obtain a hiss […] - 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics:
  2. To reduce the volume of the vocalizations of (an animal) by surgically removing tissue from its vocal cords.

    Synonyms: debark disbark

  3. To remove the vocals of a song with an AI program creating a false instrumental with imperfections (vocal shadows).

Origin

From de- + vocalize.

Forms

devocalizes devocalizing devocalized

Related

devocalization