ˈæs.pəɹ.ət ˈæs.pəɹ.ət inhale (air, water, etc.) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds remove by suction aspirate the wound a consonant pronounced with aspiration a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds. The ‘p’ in English ‘pot’ is an aspirate, but the ‘p’ in ‘spot’ is not.