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Webster 1913 Edition
Assonate
As′so-nate
,Verb.
I.
[L.
assonare
, assonatum
, to respond to.] To correspond in sound.
Definition 2024
assonate
assonate
English
Verb
assonate (third-person singular simple present assonates, present participle assonating, simple past and past participle assonated)
- to correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds.
- Part of the magic of her poetry was her ability to have her words assonate in the most propitious places