noun
- A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.
- usage: "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
- synonyms: stop consonant, stop, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
adjective
- Tending to occlude. .
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