1. drawing in or removing by suction
Usage: medical
2. pronouncing with a puff of breath
Usage: linguistics
3. inhaling something into the lungs
Usage: medical

1. relating to or involving aspiration
Usage: technical

Examples

• The doctor is aspirating fluid from the patient’s knee joint.
• She had difficulty aspirating the thick liquid through the narrow tube.
• The speech therapist taught him to avoid aspirating food while swallowing.
• In English, the ‘p’ sound is aspirating at the beginning of words like ‘pat’.
• The aspirating pump removed water from the flooded basement.
• Patients with swallowing disorders risk aspirating liquids into their lungs.