Sibilant: alternatives and connections

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered throu…

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A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, exce…

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To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

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To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

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To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.

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To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.

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Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.

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Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered throu…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, exce…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.

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