occluse

From Latin occlusus, past participle. See occlude.

occluse (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) shut; closed
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], OCLC 228722692:

     [it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel

occluse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• IPA^(key): /okˈklu.ze/
• Rhymes: -uze
• Hyphenation: oc‧clù‧se

occluse f pl

1. feminine plural of occluso

occluse

1. third-person singular past historic of occludere

occlūse

1. vocative masculine singular of occlūsus