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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a continuously repeated action. An example in English would be the iterative verb sniffle, as opposed to the noniterative sniff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: iterative
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aspect
History
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Across languages
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