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   sibilate

   /ˈsɪbɪleɪt/

   verb

   • 1. utter with a hissing sound: literary "two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘Poet’"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from Latin sibilat- ‘hissed, whistled’, from the verb sibilare.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sibilation noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • S

     1

   • I

     1

   • B

     3

   • I

     1

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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