Affrication

//æfɹɪˈkeɪʃən// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Becoming an affricate sound. uncountable
  2. 2
    the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate wordnet
  3. 3
    A particular instance of such change. countable

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