ENOUNCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enounce mean? 

• ENOUNCE (verb)
  The verb ENOUNCE has 1 sense:

1. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

  Familiarity information: ENOUNCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENOUNCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enounce    ... he / she / it enounces   
Past simple: enounced   
Past participle: enounced   
-ing form: enouncing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

articulate; enounce; enunciate; pronounce; say; sound out

Context example:

Can the child sound out this complicated word?

"Enounce" entails doing...:

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enounce"):

syllabise; syllabize (utter with distinct articulation of each syllable)

roll (pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/)

explode (cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/)

flap (pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds)

sibilate (pronounce with an initial sibilant)

trill (pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme 'r')

click (produce a click)

vocalise; vocalize; vowelise; vowelize (pronounce as a vowel)

accent; accentuate; stress (put stress on; utter with an accent)

lisp (speak with a lisp)

labialise; labialize; round (pronounce with rounded lips)

drawl (lengthen and slow down or draw out)

twang (pronounce with a nasal twang)

subvocalise; subvocalize (articulate without making audible sounds)

retroflex (articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate)

sound; vocalise; vocalize; voice (utter with vibrating vocal chords)

aspirate (pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds)

mispronounce; misspeak (pronounce a word incorrectly)

nasalise; nasalize (speak nasally or through the nose)

nasalise; nasalize (pronounce with a lowered velum)

palatalise; palatalize (pronounce a consonant with the tongue against the palate)

lilt (articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way)

raise (pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth)

devoice (utter with tense vocal chords)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was as if I had heard a summons from Heaven—as if a visionary messenger, like him of Macedonia, had enounced, "Come over and help us!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mason!—the West Indies! he said, in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words; Mason!—the West Indies! he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced—

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)