ventriloquate
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ventriloquate (third-person singular simple present ventriloquates, present participle ventriloquating, simple past and past participle ventriloquated)
- To speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
- To speak in someone else's voice.
- 2005, Applied linguistics, Volume 26[1]:
- It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).