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PHONATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Utter speech sounds

Synonyms:

phonate; vocalise; vocalize

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "phonate" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

phonation (the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract)

phone ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)

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