untrill

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ trill.

Verb

untrill (third-person singular simple present untrills, present participle untrilling, simple past and past participle untrilled)

  1. (transitive, phonetics) To remove the trill from.
    • 1994, Dugald Stewart, Comparativist Controversies, volumes 1-2, page 28:
      Even in such a language as German some one must have begun to make his [r] into a back sound, and to untrill it, and it was only gradually that the change spread through whole communities.