aspirate

aspirate is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
4. noun. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
5. adjective. Alt. of Aspirated
6. noun. a consonant pronounced with aspiration
7. verb. suck in (air)
8. verb. pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
9. verb. remove as if by suction

   "aspirate the wound"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in aspirate:

parasite, septaria

Common word forms

aspirated, aspirates, aspirating

Words from these letters

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