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Definition
to speak; or more rarely sing or play music
The exact meaning of intone can depend upon its context. It can mean:
- to say something somberly (slowly and seriously without much change in pitch)
- to speak or sing in a careful manner as with rising and falling pitch
- to say in a particular tone or pitch
- I followed Moody around the pool of blood to the street side and stepped across it as his relatives intoned a prayer.
- "I am going to die," she intoned.
- Several men took a number of live sheep and, facing in the direction of Mecca while intoning sacred prayers, slashed their throats.
- Then I read aloud from the book in front of me, intoning a long special prayer in Arabic reverently, with true devotion.
- She draped a silky black swatch of material over my head and began to intone prayers.
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