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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To utter or pronounce with a hissing sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letters s or z; also, to mark with a character indicating such a pronunciation.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To hiss
  2. v. To speak with a hissing sound

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
  2. v. pronounce with an initial sibilant
  3. v. express or utter with a hiss
  4. v. utter a sibilant

Etymologies

  1. From Latin sībilātus, past participle of sībilō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin sībilāre, sībilāt-, to hiss. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame”

    Europe After 8:15

  • “Umbrellas may be 'hedged about' by cobweb statutes; I will not swear it is not so; there may exist laws that make such things property; but sure I am that the hissing contempt, the loud-mouthed indignation of all civilised society, 'would sibilate and roar at the bloodless poltroon who should engage law on his side to obtain for him the restitution of a-- lent Umbrella! ”

    Umbrellas and Their History

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Words with the same meaning

  1. hiss

hypernyms (15)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. emit
  2. let out
  3. let loose
  1. utter
  2. articulate
  3. enunciate
  1. say
  2. sound out
  3. pronounce
  1. enounce
  2. mouth
  3. verbalise
  1. speak
  2. verbalize
  3. talk

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