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PHONATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they phonate ... he / she / it phonates
Past simple: phonated
Past participle: phonated
-ing form: phonating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Utter speech sounds
Synonyms:
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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