Assonate

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To correspond in sound; rime in assonance; be assonant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To correspond in sound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To correspond in (particularly vowel) sounds.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance
  • Word Usage
    "Thus, in the middle of the dinner party, Miles announces that the team of solicitors he works for is called "Nasty, British and Short"; Anna, who bonded with Miles years before over repartee like "you can go assonate yourself", explains puns to Brooke with examples including "there's no business like slow business"."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rhyme  rime