intransitive & transitive verb. To utter or pronounce with a hissing sound.

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letters s or z; also, to mark with a character indicating such a pronunciation.

verb. To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

verb. To hiss

verb. To speak with a hissing sound

verb. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval

verb. pronounce with an initial sibilant

verb. express or utter with a hiss

verb. utter a sibilant

"Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame"

articulate  emit  enounce  enunciate  let loose  

assibilate  bark  bawl  bellow  blare  

sibilated  sibilates  sibilating