aspirate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To pronounce (a vowel or word) with the initial release of breath associated with English h, as in hurry.
• transitive verb To follow (a consonant, especially a stop consonant) with a puff of breath that is clearly audible before the next sound begins, as in English pit or kit.
• transitive verb To draw (something) into the lungs; inhale.
• transitive verb To remove an abnormal accumulation of (a liquid or gas) from the body by aspiration.
• transitive verb To suction (a body part or growth, for example) for the removal of a liquid or gas.
• noun The speech sound represented by English h.
• noun The puff of air accompanying the release of a stop consonant.
• noun A speech sound followed by a puff of breath.
• noun Medicine Matter removed by aspiration.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pronounced with the aspirate or rough breathing; pronounced with the h-sound, or with a strong emission of breath.
• noun An aspirated sound, or a sound like our h; a sound with which the h-sound is combined, or which corresponds historically to a sound of this nature: thus, the Sanskrit kh, gh, bh, etc., and the Greek ch, th, ph (χ, θ, φ) are called aspirates, as are also the English f, th, which are more properly called breathings or spirants; also, a character or combination of characters representing a sound thus described, as the letter h, the Greek rough breathing, etc.
• To impel by aspiration or suction: as, to aspirate a current of air through a tube.
• To pronounce with a breathing or an audible emission of breath; pronounce with such a sound as that of the letter h: as, we aspirate the words horse and house, but not hour and honor; cockneys often aspirate words beginning with a vowel.
• To remove by aspiration.
• To be uttered with an aspirate or strong breathing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
• noun A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
• noun An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
• transitive verb To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound
• adjective Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun linguistics The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive consonant.
• noun linguistics A sound produced by such a puff of air.
• verb transitive To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
• verb transitive To inhale so as to draw something other than air into one's lungs.
• verb transitive, linguistics To produce an audible puff of breath. especially following a consonant.
• adjective aspirated

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb suck in (air)
• verb remove as if by suction
• noun a consonant pronounced with aspiration
• verb pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds