HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| VERB | 1 | sound out, pronounce, articulate, enounce, enunciate, say | Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
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| 2 | sound out, check out, feel out | Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions |
| Meaning | Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" |
| Synonyms | pronounce, articulate, enounce, enunciate, say |
| Narrower | twang; devoice; raise; lilt; palatalize, palatalise; nasalize, nasalise; mispronounce, misspeka; aspirate; voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise; retroflex; subvocalize, subvocalise; syllabize, syllabise; drawl; round, labialize, labialise; lisp; stress, accent, accentuate; vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise; click; trill; sibilate; flap; explode; roll |
| Entails | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise |
| Meaning | Try to learn someone's opinions and intentions. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "I have to sound out the new professor" |
| Synonyms | check out, feel out |
| Broader | question, query |
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