Aspirate (Verb)
Meaning 1
Inhale (air, water, etc.).
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
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Meaning 2
Remove by suction; "aspirate the wound".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The nurse carefully used a syringe to aspirate the wound and remove any debris or dirt.
- The doctor inserted a catheter to aspirate the air from the patient's chest cavity.
- In the laboratory, the technician prepared to aspirate the supernatant from the centrifuge tube.
- Aspirate any liquid from the container before sealing it for storage.
- After the operation, the surgeon had to aspirate the fluid that had accumulated around the patient's lungs.
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Meaning 3
Pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The English 'p' is aspirated, so we pronounce it as 'ph' in 'pat'.
- She learned to aspirate the 't' sound in 'tap' to improve her accent.
- In the local dialect, the 'k' sound is always aspirated at the beginning of words.
- To differentiate the stop sound, the student had to aspirate the 'b' in 'bother'.
- When speaking correctly, a speaker must aspirate the voiceless consonant sounds like 'p', 't', and 'k'.