verb
1. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sibilant (for: ↑sibilate), ↑sibilation (for: ↑sibilate), ↑hiss (for: ↑hiss), ↑hisser (for: ↑hiss), ↑hissing (for: ↑hiss)
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Somebody ——s
2. express or utter with a hiss
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sibilation (for: ↑sibilate), ↑sibilant (for: ↑sibilate), ↑hiss (for: ↑hiss), ↑hissing (for: ↑hiss)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s that CLAUSE
Useful english dictionary. 2012.