Assonate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Assonate \As"so*nate\, v. i. [L. assonare, assonatum, to respond
     to.]
     To correspond in sound.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  assonate
       v : correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance; "The
           accented vowels assonated in this poem"