ALLITERATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they alliterate ... he / she / it alliterates

Past simple: alliterated

Past participle: alliterated

-ing form: alliterating

Meaning:

Use alliteration as a form of poetry

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

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

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

alliteration (use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse)

alliterative (having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable)

alliterator (a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration)