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speak > 5 senses
VERB1speak, talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbaliseExpress in speech
2speak, talkExchange thoughts
3speak, talkUse language
4speak, addressGive a speech to
5speakMake a characteristic or natural sound
speak > pronunciation
Soundsspiy'k
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speak > verb 1, communication
MeaningExpress in speech.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Synonymstalk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Entailed bypronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say; declaim, recite
Narrowerread; 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
Broadercommunicate, intercommunicate
Similar toverbalize, verbalise
See alsospeak up
Nounsspeech; speaker; speaking
speak > verb 2, communication
MeaningExchange thoughts. Talk with.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s to somebody
Synonymstalk
Narrowercontinue, 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
Broadercommunicate, intercommunicate
See alsospeak for
Nounsspeech
speak > verb 3, communication
MeaningUse language.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
ModelSam and Sue speak
Examples"the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
Synonymstalk
Entailed byaddress, speak
Narrowerrun on; smatter; slang
Broadercommunicate, intercommunicate
Nounsspeech; speaking
speak > verb 4, communication
MeaningGive a speech to.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody
Synonymsaddress
Entailsspeak, talk
Entailed bytake the floor
Narrowerblaze away; memorialize, memorialise; keynote; harangue
Nounsspeaking; speech
speak > verb 5, perception
MeaningMake a characteristic or natural sound.
PatternSomething ----s
Broadersound

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