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fricative

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. 🔊 a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fricativo fricative

Similar words

fricative consonant spirant continuant sibilant spirant strident