OCCLUSIVE

• (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

  "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

  synonyms : plosive , plosive consonant , plosive speech sound , stop , stop consonant

• (adj.) tending to occlude

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