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Assonate

Assonate \As"so*nate\, v. i. [L. assonare, assonatum, to respond to.] To correspond in sound.

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assonate

vb. to correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds.

WordNet
assonate

v. correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance; "The accented vowels assonated in this poem"