surd
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It offers private, group and corporate surf lessons, as well as an after-school program, surd camps and rentals, according to its website.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
Again, he points out that the surd aspirate h is heard in some languages, but is hardly audible in others.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Adj. deaf, earless†, surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute, stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker†. inaudible, out of hearing.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Tell we, we twain, Unreasons which in life Deal me inexorable, contrary Destinies surd to prayer and tearful woe.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
We may say that the sonant consonant and its corresponding surd are the hard and soft forms of the same sound.
From The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody
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