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Meaning of ventriloquize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To practice ventriloquism.
  2. To speak the words of (another person), as though by ventriloquism.

Equivalents

Deutsch bauchreden

Examples

“Ms. Seltzer has talked about being “torn,” about wanting somehow to ventriloquize her subjects, to “put a voice to people who people don’t listen to.” Ms. De Wael has similarly referred to a longing to be part of the group to which she did not, emphatically, belong: “I felt different.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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