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Definition of aspirate : 1. A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
2. 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.
3. Alt. of Aspirated
4. An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.
5. To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Synonyms:

evoke, pull out, pull, aspiration, extend, educe, draw in, mop, assonance, affricate, close vowel, dry off, protract, suck in, extract, pull up, dehydrate, alveolar, blot, prolong, consonant, draw out, bilabial, bleed, draw off, express, dry, elicit, closed syllable, drain, suck out, take out

Usage examples:

• According to it every tenuis in Latin is in Gothic represented by its corresponding aspirate. - "Lectures on The Science of Language", Max Müller.
• 29. " The inserting the common aspirate too, is improper." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
• 57. " For there is no authority which can justify the inserting the aspirate or doubling the vowel." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.