soundest
adjective
- 1
Healthy.
“He was safe and sound.”
- 2
Complete, solid, or secure.
“Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.”
- 3
Having the property of soundness.
- 4
Good; acceptable; decent.
“"How are you?" - "I'm sound."”
- 5
(of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
“Her sleep was sound.”
- 6
Heavy; laid on with force.
“a sound beating”
- 7
Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
“a sound title to land”
verb
- 1
To produce a sound.
“When the horn sounds, take cover.”
- 2
To convey an impression by one's sound.
“He sounded good when we last spoke.”
- 3
To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- 4
To resound.
- 5
(often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law.
- 6
To cause to produce a sound.
“He sounds the instrument.”
- 7
(of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
“The "e" in "house" isn't sounded.”
verb
- 1
Dive downwards, used of a whale.
“The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.”
- 2
To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
“When I sounded him, he appeared to favor the proposed deal.”
- 3
Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
“Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.”
- 4
To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
“to sound a patient, or the bladder or urethra”
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