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[ T ] medical specialized
to remove a liquid or gas from a space in the body using suction(= a sucking action):
If a cyst becomes painful, it can be aspirated or drained of its fluid.
Fluid aspirated from the knee is sent to the laboratory for analysis.
[ T ] phonetics specialized
to breathe out air when pronouncing a plosive consonant sound: 送气发辅音爆破音
Native speakers of Arabic often do not aspirate their Ps when they speak English.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal physiology: breathing & stopping breathing
aerobic
asphyxia
asphyxiation
aspirate
aspiration
breathable
breathe (something) in
choke
draw breathphrase
expire
huff and puffidiom
hyperventilation
lungful
non-breathing
out of breath
pant
puffed
puffed out
stifle
strangulation

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Examples of aspirated

aspirated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

However, aspirated consonants were not significantly different between the two speech styles.
The crucial result is the presence of the first release burst, seen in both clusters and sequences, voiced and aspirated.
All its members are either voiced, aspirated or ejective.
All test words are given in their orthographic form since what is at issue is whether the stops are voiced, aspirated, or voiceless and unaspirated.
Another prediction is that voiced aspirated stops should tend to associate with breathy voiced sonorants.
For consonants in any language which are never aspirated, it is a simple matter to employ output constraints that forbid aspiration on such consonants.
They were aspirated with a 10 cm3 syringe attached to an 18 gauge needle.
Oocytes were aspirated from 2-6 mm follicles and only oocytes with compact layers of cumulus cells were selected for in vitro maturation.
The aspirated cytoplasm and the spermatozoon were then gently ejected into the cytoplasm and the needle was withdrawn.
The tip of the needle was gently positioned inside the target pronucleus which was aspirated, while the needle was withdrawn.
The breath, generated by the aspirated action of the body, was processed and transformed into sound.
English may also be a system of this type, depending on how one treats the aspirated stops.
Protoscoleces were aspirated from the melted cysts and rinsed several times with saline.
Analysis of these tokens reveals that the /p/ is strongly aspirated, marking it as a syllable onset, rather than part of a consonant cluster.
Females were then aspirated into individual vials, where they were allowed to oviposit for 2 days.
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