aspirated Definition
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aspirate
noun
- 1a. The sound represented in English and several other languages by the letter h;
1b. A voiceless plosive sound such as /p/, /t/ or /k/ that has an audible breathiness after the stop has been released.
- 1a. phonetics.
- To pronounce a word with an h sound as opposed to ‘dropping' it, eg to give the word hedgehog its full phonetic value, rather than saying ‘edge'og, as in some varieties of English;
- To give a voiceless plosive an audible breathiness after the stop has been released.
