aspirate

Speech parts

1. aspirate - Noun

2. aspirate - Adjective

3. aspirate - Verb

Meaning

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.

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

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

Alt. of Aspirated

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inhale draw out breathe in suck out coo give call click command voice drawn remove add draw answer
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Antonyms

place provide put improve establish lay
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Hypernyms

take say consonant remove withdraw inspire

Related terms

aspiration aspire aspirator aspirational nonaspirate unaspirate

Derivatives

aspirated aspirating

Anagrams

parasite septaria pastiera

Examples

aspirate the wound Source: Internet

Comatose patients may aspirate their vomit (resulting in vomitus in the lungs, which may cause "drowning" and later pneumonia if survived). Source: Internet

“That’s important because she will be lying on her back during surgery, and she will have anesthesia, and the anesthesiologist wants her stomach to be completely empty so that if she gets sick she doesn’t aspirate food into her lung,” says Gossett. Source: Internet

The problem is if you aspirate in the middle of the night you could get aspiration pneumonia which could be dangerous for people who are elderly, someone with a weak immune system. Source: Internet

However, younger Māori speakers tend to aspirate /p, t, k/ as in English. Source: Internet

These are known as soft (b > v, etc.), hard (b > p), aspirate (b unchanged, t > th) and mixed (b > f). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

aspirant nation aspirant nation-state aspirant state aspirate mutation aspirated aspirated consonant