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, ↑plosive consonant, ↑plosive speech sound, ↑plosive
• Ant: ↑continuant consonant (for: ↑stop consonant)
• Hypernyms: ↑obstruent
• Hyponyms: ↑labial stop, ↑glottal stop, ↑glottal plosive, ↑glottal catch, ↑suction stop, ↑click
adjective
tending to occlude (Freq. 1)
• Pertains to noun: ↑occlusion
• Derivationally related forms: ↑occlude
Useful english dictionary. 2012.