English pronunciation · Words Starting with S
Segregate Pronunciation
Segregate is pronounced SE-gruh-gayt, IPA /ˈsɛgrəˌgeɪt/.
SE-gruh-gayt
US /ˈsɛgrəˌgeɪt/ · UK /ˈsɛgrɪˌgeɪt/
Syllables: SE · gruh · gayt (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
verb: To keep groups of people or things apart from each other.
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Segregate in a Sentence
- The law segregated schools for decades.
- Hospitals segregate clinical waste from ordinary rubbish.
- Nobody could explain why the two teams were segregated at lunch.
Common Mispronunciations of Segregate
Not suh-GRE-gayt
SE leads, and the two beats behind it fall away, which is the pattern in delegate and relegate too.
Not SE-gruh-juht
Both g letters stay hard, and the verb ending keeps its full ay, gayt rather than guht.
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