ventriloquate

present singular third person ventriloquates · participle present ventriloquating · participle past ventriloquated · past ventriloquated

1. To speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
2. To speak in someone else's voice.

   It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).

   2005, Applied linguistics, Volume 26