| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| VERB | 1 | speak, talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
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| 2 | speak, talk | Exchange thoughts | |
| 3 | speak, talk | Use language | |
| 4 | speak, address | Give a speech to | |
| 5 | speak | Make a characteristic or natural sound |
| Sounds | spiy'k |
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| Rhymes | antique, batik, beak, and 50 more rhymes in iyk at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Express in speech. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise |
| Entailed by | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say; declaim, recite |
| Narrower | read; vocalize, vocalise, phonate; troll; begin; lip off, shoot one's mouth off; shout; whisper; peep; speak up; snap, snarl; enthuse; speak in tongues; swallow; verbalize, verbalise; whiff; talk of, talk about; blubber, blubber out; drone, drone on; bumble, stutter, stammer, falter; rasp; blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate; tone, inflect, modulate; deliver, present; generalize, generalise; chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble; chatter; yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away; open up; snivel, whine; murmur; mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate; slur; bark; bay; rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave; hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate; cackle; babble; tone, chant, intone; gulp; sing |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| Similar to | verbalize, verbalise |
| See also | speak up |
| Nouns | speech; speaker; speaking |
| Meaning | Exchange thoughts. Talk with. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s to somebody |
| Synonyms | talk |
| Narrower | continue, go on, carry on, proceed; discourse, dissertate; pontificate; orate; talk down; spiel; dogmatize, dogmatise; cheek; level; talk turkey; monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise; converse, discourse; chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash; dish the dirt, gossip; rap |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| See also | speak for |
| Nouns | speech |
| Meaning | Use language. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
| Model | Sam and Sue speak |
| Examples | "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" |
| Synonyms | talk |
| Entailed by | address, speak |
| Narrower | run on; smatter; slang |
| Broader | communicate, intercommunicate |
| Nouns | speech; speaking |
| Meaning | Give a speech to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | address |
| Entails | speak, talk |
| Entailed by | take the floor |
| Narrower | blaze away; memorialize, memorialise; keynote; harangue |
| Nouns | speaking; speech |
| Meaning | Make a characteristic or natural sound. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Broader | sound |