Crossword-Solution: ASPIRATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aspirate | 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. |
| Aspirate | 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. |
| Aspirate | n. | A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. |
| Aspirate | n. | An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc. |
| Aspirate | a. | Alt. of Aspirated |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ASPIRATE | anagram | PARASITE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
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greedy person
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Sentences with ASPIRATE (5)
Aspire.] To [pronounce with a breathing, an ~, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
And besides, he could not tell whether the queen meant light-haired or light-heired; for why might she not aspirate her vowels when she was exasperated herself? He turned upon his other heel, and rejoined her.
Aronsohn speaks of a child who was playing with a toy wind-instrument, and in his efforts to forcibly aspirate air through it, the child drew the detached reed into the respiratory passages, causing asphyxiation.
And I lose my letter, and I stand on the Prado of Madrid with the last portrait of Britannia in the palm of my hand, and crying in the purest brogue of my native land: 'It's all through dropping a letter I'm here in Iberia instead of Hibernia, worse luck to the spelling!'" "But Patrick will be sure to aspirate the initial letter of Hibernia." "That is clever criticism, upon my word, Miss Middleton! So he would.
Besides you are to suppose the performance before a London audience, who have a native opposite to the aspirate and wouldn't bear to hear him spoil a joke, as if he were a lord or a constable.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).