aspirar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- aspirate verb To accidentally draw food, liquid or another foreign substance into the airway or lungs instead of swallowing it into the stomach.
- aspire verb To have a strong ambition or hope to achieve something.
- inhale verb To breathe air or another substance into the lungs.
- sniff verb To inhale audibly through the nose, often to smell something.
- vacuum noun A space that is completely empty of matter, including air.
Senses
aspirar is used for these senses in English:
- aspirate (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
- aspirate (transitive) To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
- aspirate (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- aspire (intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something.
- inhale (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
- sniff (slang, primarily, UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
- vacuum-clean (transitive) To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
aspirate — full definition
- verb To accidentally draw food, liquid or another foreign substance into the airway or lungs instead of swallowing it into the stomach.
- verb To draw fluid, tissue or air out of a body cavity using suction, usually with a needle or tube.
- verb To pronounce a sound with an audible puff of breath, as with the h in 'hat' or the p in 'pin'.
- noun A consonant sound made with a puff of breath, or the letter representing it.