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Intone Common

Intone has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically

"The students chanted the same slogan over and over again"

2

recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm

"The rabbi chanted a prayer"

3

speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone

"please intonate with sadness"

4

To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.

Example Sentences
"The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" verb
"The rabbi chanted a prayer" verb
"please intonate with sadness" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
talk sing pronounce
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
singsong
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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