Sibilate

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To utter or pronounce with a hissing sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To hiss
  • v. To speak with a hissing sound
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letters s or z; also, to mark with a character indicating such a pronunciation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
  • v. pronounce with an initial sibilant
  • v. express or utter with a hiss
  • v. utter a sibilant
  • Verb Form
    sibilated    sibilates    sibilating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit    let out    let loose    utter    articulate    enunciate    say    sound out    pronounce    enounce   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hiss