aspirate

[As·pi*rate]

To aspirate is to exhale or breathe air out as you speak. Many languages include word sounds that require the speaker to aspirate.

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To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Noun
a consonant pronounced with aspiration

Verb
suck in air

Verb
pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds

Verb
remove as if by suction; "draw in air"


v. t.
To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

n.
A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.

n.
A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.

n.
An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

a.
Alt. of Aspirated


Aspirate

As"pi*rate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aspirated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aspirating .] [L. aspiratus, p. p. of aspirare to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire.] To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Aspirate

As"pi*rate , n. 1. A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound. 2. A mark of aspiration () used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley. 3. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.

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