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aspirate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aaeiprstStarts with AEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. inhale (air, water, etc.)

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.

Used in a sentence

  • We now come to the so-called aspirate [h], which must be also classified as a fricative consonant.
  • a. 1742, Richard Bentley, letter to Dr. Mead But we must correct then twenty authors who have it in the compound ἀπηθεῖν and ἀπήθημα ; and not (as the aspirate would require it) ἀφηθεῖν and αφήθημα
  • Scrape cells using a cell scraper and aspirate the resulting slurry into a 2.0-mL Eppendorf tube.

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