Meaning of SOUND OUT
Pronunciation: | | sawnd awt
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- [v] try to learn someone's opinions and intentions; "I have to sound out the new professor"
- [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, check out, enounce, enunciate, feel out, pronounce, say |
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| See Also: | | accent, accentuate, aspirate, click, devoice, drawl, explode, flap, labialise, labialize, lilt, lisp, mispronounce, mouth, nasalise, nasalize, palatalise, palatalize, query, question, raise, retroflex, roll, round, sibilate, sound, speak, stress, subvocalise, subvocalize, syllabise, syllabize, talk, trill, twang, utter, verbalise, verbalize, vocalise, vocalize, voice, vowelise, vowelize | |
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