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af•fri•cate

Pronunciation: (
—n.af'ri-kit;
—v.af'ri-kāt"), [key]
—n., v., -cat•ed, -cat•ing. Phonet.

—n.
Also called affricative. a speech sound comprising occlusion, plosion, and frication, as either of the ch-sounds in church and the j-sound in joy.

—v.t.
to change the pronunciation of (a stop) to an affricate, esp. by releasing (the stop) slowly.

affreight

affrication

See also:

affricate (Thesaurus)

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