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Vinony

aspiration

noun

  1. act of aspiring or ardently desiring
  2. The act of sucking fluid from some kind of pocket/joint
  3. The act of sucking fluid or object into lungs
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō.

  1. The action of aspirating.
  2. A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

    “In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes.”

  3. The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
  4. The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
  5. The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.