ventriloquize

present singular third person ventriloquizes · participle present ventriloquizing · participle past ventriloquized · past ventriloquized · alternative ventriloquise

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

   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.

   2008 March 9, Daniel Mendelsohn, “Stolen Suffering”, in New York Times