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How to pronounce “bristle”
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Pronunciation guide for bristle
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of bristle with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste
But many sustainable food advocates bristle at this idea of reinvention.
- Definition summary
- A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
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How to pronounce bristle
Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste
But many sustainable food advocates bristle at this idea of reinvention.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “bristle”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
- A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
- The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out.
- (intransitive, usually with at or with) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
- (transitive, now rare or obsolete) To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles. [from 16th-early 20th c.]
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.
- (rare) To fix a bristle or bristles to.
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Similar Sounds
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