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continuant

English

  1. 🔊 of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
  2. 🔊 consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract

Similar words

continuant consonant fricative sibilant spirant strident