1speak, 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?
Synonymspronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say,
Hyponymsaspirate, click, devoice, drawl, explode, flap, lilt, lisp, mispronounce, nasalize, palatalize, raise, retroflex, roll, round, sibilate, stress, subvocalize, syllabize, trill, twang, vocalize, voice,
Entailmentstalk,
Typesaccenting, accentuating, aspirating, clicking, devoicing, drawling, exploding, flapping, labialising, labializing, lilting, lisping, mispronouncing, nasalising, nasalizing, palatalising, palatalizing, raising, retroflexing, rolling, rounding, sibilating, sounding, stressing, subvocalising, subvocalizing, syllabising, syllabizing, trilling, twanging, vocalising, vocalizing, voicing, vowelising, vowelizing,
See alsopronunciation,