deaccent

de- +‎ accent

deaccent (third-person singular simple present deaccents, present participle deaccenting, simple past and past participle deaccented)

1. (transitive, phonetics) To remove the accent or stress from (a syllable).
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

     Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality.

• accented