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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An act of the instance of naming as the target of a death-curse, of killing by naming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
present participle and gerund of dead-name
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
From dead + naming, 'naming as (soon to be) dead'. Attested since the early 1900s.
