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PHONATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does phonate mean?
• PHONATE (verb)
The verb PHONATE has 1 sense:
1. utter speech sounds
Familiarity information: PHONATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they phonate ... he / she / it phonates
Past simple: phonated
Past participle: phonated
-ing form: phonating
... he / she / it phonates Past simple: phonated
Past participle: phonated
-ing form: phonating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Utter speech sounds
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
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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