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      Aspirate: to suck in or draw in; to remove fluid (etc) by suction; to follow (a consonant) with an audible puff of breath. From Webster’s New World Dictionary

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        Aspirate -Medical  When your lungs fill with foreign matter Like if you barf while passed out . This happens with drug or alcohol overdose

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          It means inhaling food or liquid or something down your trachea. This tends to happen with stroke patients when they are on their back.They vomit, then accidently inhale it.

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