aspirate
Pronunciation[change]
- noun and adjective
- verb
Audio (AU) (file) - (UK) Hyphenation: as‧pir‧ate
- (US) Hyphenation: as‧pi‧rate
Noun[change]
- (linguistics) An aspirate is the puff of air that accompanies the release of a plosive consonant.
- (linguistics) An aspirate is the sound produced by such a puff of air.
Verb[change]
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- (transitive) If you aspirate, you remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- (transitive) If you aspirate, you inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
- (linguistics) If you aspirate, you produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant.