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intonein‧tone /ɪnˈtəʊn $ -ˈtoʊn/ verb [transitive] formal intoneOrigin: 1300-1400 Old French entoner, from Medieval Latin intonare, from Latin tonus; ➔ TONE1 VERB TABLEintone |
Present | I, you, we, they | intone | | he, she, it | intones | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | intoned | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have intoned | | he, she, it | has intoned | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had intoned | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will intone | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have intoned |
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Present | I | am intoning | | he, she, it | is intoning | | you, we, they | are intoning | Past | I, he, she, it | was intoning | | you, we, they | were intoning | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been intoning | | he, she, it | has been intoning | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been intoning | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be intoning | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been intoning |
- Uncle Danny intoned the prayer in Hebrew.
- Even when the clergyman appeared from the vestry and began the service, the prayers he intoned brought me no help.
- Loudly he intoned some short Latin prayer, then crossed himself again and turned.
- That same year Iggy Pop intoned the chorus to her feminist ballad Daw da Hiya.
- The priest intoned the prayers in a nervous voice, pulling at his beard.
- When I had studied it, very slowly, I used to intone the melody with which I had once studied Gemara.
- With each drop the name of the plague is intoned.
to say something slowly and clearly without making your voice rise and fall much as you speak: The priest intoned the blessing. |