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Aspirating

Aspirate \As"pi*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aspirated; p. pr. & vb. n. Aspirating.] [L. aspiratus, p. p. of aspirare to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire.] 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.

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aspirating

vb. (present participle of aspirate English)

Usage examples of "aspirating".

The white mouse merely crouched on the crate, its eyes dull, its sides aspirating weakly.

It was like touching something inert—packed straw or sawdust, perhaps—except for the aspirating sides.

He certainly seemed to indicate that you'd done the aspirating, David.

But for now," Fergusson leaned back and tapped lightly on his notebook with his pen, "let's just forget who did the aspirating, eh?

It was like touching something inert - packed straw or sawdust, perhaps - except for the aspirating sides.

Naomi, anesthetized, had been oblivious to what was going on around her, and Lisa had quickly forgotten about him as she concentrated on the ultrasound images that guided her in aspirating the eggs from Naomi's follicles into test tubes.

I wondered whether it was possible to lie supine and throw up without aspirating vomit or choking.

They discovered that when Ayla made a certain grimace, pulling back her lips and showing her teeth, often accompanied by peculiar aspirating sounds, it meant she was happy, not hostile.

A white Caucasian female then placed a suction tube in Peterson's throat and with a foot pedal device began aspirating Peterson's blood.