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plosive speech sound

noun

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

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his stop consonants are too aspirated

• Syn: ↑stop consonant, ↑stop, ↑occlusive, ↑plosive consonant, ↑plosive

• Ant: ↑continuant consonant (for: ↑stop consonant)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑occlusive (for: ↑occlusive)

• Hypernyms: ↑obstruent

• Hyponyms: ↑labial stop, ↑glottal stop, ↑glottal plosive, ↑glottal catch, ↑suction stop, ↑click

• Part Meronyms: ↑implosion, ↑plosion, ↑explosion

Useful english dictionary. 2012.