Clues for the word "ASPIRATE"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Guardian Quick crossword on March 02, 2016.
Definition of aspirate
- v. t. - To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
- n. - A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
- n. - A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- n. - An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
- a. - Alt. of Aspirated
Referring Clues
- What a Cockney may not do
- Pronounce an H
- Send something down the wrong pipe, as it were
- Say "hey," say
- Pronounce with an exhalation
- What Eliza didn't do for 'enry 'iggins?
- Breathe in
- Letter pronounced while breathing out
- Record the sound of Beethoven's fifth
- Begins hunting like a sea wolf
- 'ook doesn't have what it takes to succeed thus
- H sound - suck air in or out
- May be carelessly dropped in the middle of nowhere
- Don't drop ones aitches like Captain 'ook, say
- Hook starts the way he'd go on
- H, as with Hook?
- Speak with force like Hook, for example
- In character of bad one at sea? Sound at start of horror
- Pronounce with full breath
- A Parisian doesn't like to poach?
- H as for Hook, for example
- Like corsair, it's lacking in honour and honesty
- Say the "h" in "historical," say
- Suck like Blackbeard?
- Say “hey,” say
Last Seen In
- Guardian Quick - March 02, 2016
- New York Times - January 03, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - December 31, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - June 05, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - January 27, 2015
- New York Times - December 06, 2014
- Guardian Everyman - May 18, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 28, 2013
- Wall Street Journal - February 01, 2013
- New York Times - December 27, 2012
- Chicago Reader - August 03, 2012
- Guardian Quick - January 19, 2012
- Guardian Prize - July 30, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - May 27, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - November 03, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - January 25, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 16, 2006
- Guardian Speedy - October 30, 2005
- New York Times - May 07, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - March 09, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - November 01, 2002
- Guardian Prize - May 26, 2001