HOW TO PRONOUNCE
syncope
/ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
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SING-kuh-pee: the final e is pronounced.
The n before k has the ng sound of “sing.” Keep the first syllable strongest, followed by a light kuh and an unstressed ee.
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“The lecturer explained how syncope can shorten a spoken word.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does syncope mean?
noun
- The elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable.
- A loss of consciousness when fainting.
- A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation.
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/ˈsɪŋ.kə.pi/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.
"You see," said Smith, "Southery died during the night, but Sir Frank Narcombe, arriving a few minutes later, unhesitatingly pronounced death to be due to syncope, and seems to have noticed nothing suspicious."
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Depaul mentions a woman who fell in a public street and was delivered of a living child during a syncope which lasted four hours.
This lack of control of excitement extended in E.'s case to play, entertainment, novelty of any kind, crowds and especially to the disagreeable excitement of quarrels, fights, terrifying experiences, etc. Under anger he trembled, grew pale, and his shouts and screams were beyond control; under fear he became actually sick, vomited and showed a liability to syncope of an alarming kind.
Lividity of the whole body, as well as of the countenance, difficulty of speech, tremor of the limbs, icy coldness, pale urine, depression of spirits, headache, a flow of tears, nausea, vomiting, sexual excitement, flatulence, syncope, dysuria, watchfulness, lethargy, even death itself, were cited by them as the consequences of being bitten by venomous spiders, and they made little distinction as to their kinds.