egressive
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Going or directed outward.
- adjective Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
- adjective descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.
- noun A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
Similar words
pulmonic degressive downward backward sideways edgeways proverse gradatory outbowed onward
Often followed by
air airstream pulmonic and airflow or lung stops
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