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subvocalize

vb. (context transitive and intransitive English) To form words or statements in thought and express them inwardly without uttering them aloud.

WordNet
subvocalize

v. articulate without making audible sounds; "she was reading to herself and merely subvocalized" [syn: subvocalise]

Usage examples of "subvocalize".

Sure enough, after he subvocalized, the computer image of Miro spoke again.

He laid his hand on the main hatch, for identification purposes, and began to subvocalize the code that would let them enter.

But I can hear anything you subvocalize, and I can smell your emotions, and I can read your body language like a book.

She was worried about him, and so must have subvocalized unspoken words that the computer picked up.

She subvocalized the record command to her camera implant and stored an additional working copy, in case she had any brilliant ideas on the way home.

David subvocalized to his implant for directions down to the recyclers.

It was because she had seen Ender do exactly the same thing, moving his lips and jaw, when he was issuing subvocalized commands to the computer terminal built into the jewel he wore in his ear.

Miro had not subvocalized anything just before the Miro-image answered.

Jane, the whisper in his mind when he first woke up, the friend who heard everything he subvocalized, who knew his needs before he noticed them himself Jane, who shared all his thoughts and dreams, who had stayed with him through the worst of his cripplehood, who had led him Outside to where he could be renewed.

He had inadvertently spoken to her as flippantly as he used to when he subvocalized so she could overhear him through the jewel.

Cap subvocalized to Flash, though The others also heard him over their earcomms.

Every time someone subvocalized, my head felt like a gong being struck.

Again, it was oddly difficult to switch back to English, even subvocalizing this way.

She knows what those almost inaudible clicking and smacking noises always mean, that Ender was subvocalizing in order to talk with me.

I was trying to and you were just subvocalizing to Jane and shutting me out.