Rhyme and Sound

Rhyme

Rhyme verb - To be in agreement on every point.

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Sound and rhyme are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sound" instead a verb "Rhyme".

Nearby Words: rhymer, rhymester

Sound verb - To continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves.

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Rhyme and sound are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rhyme" instead a verb "Sound".

Nearby Words: sounded, soundness, soundly, sounding, sounder

old	old rhyme	old sound
familiar	familiar rhyme	familiar sound
similar	similar rhyme	similar sound
normal	normal rhyme	normal sound
Other adjectives: short, original, actual, little, ominous, famous, new, traditional, different, creepy.

In the German dub Homer's line was translated literally which ruined the pun because the German words for "glide" and "hide" don't rhyme or sound similar at all.

Source: You Can Run, but You Can't Hide
In Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car", almost all the rhymes are slant rhymes, and Tracy works hard to make them sound like they rhyme.

Source: Painful Rhyme
Goldentusk's With Lyrics version of the Halloween theme does this once; perhaps unnecessarily, since the running rhyme of the song is a long E sound.

Source: Midword Rhyme

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