Meaning of ENOUNCE
| Pronunciation: | | i'nawns
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| | Definition: | | [v] speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" |
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| | Synonyms: | | articulate, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| | See Also: | | accent, accentuate, aspirate, click, devoice, drawl, explode, flap, labialise, labialize, lilt, lisp, mispronounce, mouth, nasalise, nasalize, palatalise, palatalize, raise, retroflex, roll, round, sibilate, sound, speak, stress, subvocalise, subvocalize, syllabise, syllabize, talk, trill, twang, utter, verbalise, verbalize, vocalise, vocalize, voice, vowelise, vowelize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enounced}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Enouncing}.] [F. ['e]noncer, L. enuntiare; e out +
nuntiare to announce, fr. nuntius messenger. See {Nuncio},
and cf. {Enunciate}.]
1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or
argument. --Sir W. Hamilton.
2. To utter; to articulate.
The student should be able to enounce these [sounds]
independently. --A. M. Bell.
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