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