How to pronounce“acute”in English
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the war with Iran has been relatively unpopular with many within the United States, it's unlikely that we would see
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Definitions of “acute”
High or shrill.
“an acute accent or tone”
A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
“Anne Marie had been assigned a ‘constant supervision’ status. […] Always avoiding the unrest of the television lounge, she would sometimes join some of the older ‘acutes’ who sat isolated in metal chairs at the end of the hallway and gaze out of the window with them.”
An accent or tone higher than others.
“[I]t would be strange if we wer to recite Homer, raising our voices on the acutes, lowering them on the graves, and managing the circumflexes as well as we could, yet to recite Virgil without any of these regular elevations, depressions, and circumbendibus.”