intoneverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈtəʊn/us/ɪnˈtoʊn/formalto say something slowly and seriously in a voice that does not rise or fall much:
[ + speech ] "Let us pray," the priest intoned to his congregation.
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- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- enunciate
- get your tongue around/round sth idiom
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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