1. breathes in or draws by suction
Usage: medical
2. pronounces with a puff of breath
Usage: linguistics

1. speech sounds pronounced with a puff of breath
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The doctor aspirates fluid from the patient’s lungs.
• She carefully aspirates the sample with a syringe.
• English speakers aspirate the ‘p’ sound in ‘pin’.
• The letter ‘h’ represents an aspirate in many languages.
• Some consonants are aspirates while others are not.
• The nurse aspirates the medication into the needle.
• Different languages have varying numbers of aspirates.