enounce
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (1)enounced, enouncing
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way“She pronounces French words in a funny way”“I cannot say ‘zip wire’”“Can the child sound out this complicated word?”Synonyms: pronouncearticulatesound outenunciatesayMore general talk, speakMore specific stress, voice, drawl, sibilate, round, subvocalize, vocalize, trill, click, palatalize +13 moreInvolves talk, speak
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
E·nounce′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Enounced; present participle & verbal noun Enouncing.]
Origin: F. énoncer, L. enuntiare; e out + nuntiare to announce, fr. nuntius messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Enunciate.
1. To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir William Hamilton
2. To utter; to articulate.
The student should be able to enounce these [sounds] independently.— Alexander Melville Bell
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54