aspirate

verb

• 1 (often as adjective aspirated) Phonetics pronounce (a sound) with an exhalation of breath:the aspirated allophone of p occurs in ‘pie’
• [no object] pronounce the sound of h at the beginning of a word: Londoners are always aspirating where they should not, and never aspirating where they should

• 2 Medicine breathe (something) in; inhale:some drowning victims don’t aspirate any water
• draw (fluid) by suction from a vessel or cavity: bile was aspirated through a catheter

• 3 (usually as adjective aspirated) provide (an internal-combustion engine) with air:the superchargers produce twice the power of standard aspirated enginesSee also normally aspirated.

noun

• 1 Phonetics an aspirated consonant.
• a sound of h.

• 2 [mass noun] Medicine matter that has been drawn from the body by suction: gastric aspirate [count noun]:oesophageal aspirates

adjective

• (of a sound) pronounced with an exhalation of breath; aspirated.