sound out

Verb

• try to learn someone's opinions and intentions
  • I have to sound out the new professor
    

• speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
  • She pronounces French words in a funny way
    
  • I cannot say `zip wire'
    
  • Can the child sound out this complicated word?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  check out , feel out , pronounce , articulate , enounce , enunciate , say