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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell declaration |
| Synonyms: | announce, arouse, awaken, bawl, bellow, cry, cry out, exclaim, hail, holler*, hoot, howl, proclaim, roar, rouse, scream, screech, shout, shriek, vociferate, waken, whoop, yawp, yoo hoo, yowl |
| Antonyms: | conceal, listen, refrain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entitle |
| Synonyms: | address, baptize, christen, denominate, describe as, designate, dub, label, name, style, term, title |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand or announce action |
| Synonyms: | appeal to, appoint, ask, challenge, charge, claim, command, declare, decree, elect, entreat, exact, ordain, order, postulate, pray to, proclaim, require, requisition, set apart, solicit, summon |
| Antonyms: | stop |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, make rough guess, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, vaticinate |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to communicate by telephone |
| Synonyms: | beep, blast*, bleep, buzz, contact, get back to, phone, ring, telephone |
| Antonyms: | receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit at residence or business |
| Synonyms: | come by, come over, crash, drop by, drop in, fall by, fall down, hit, look in on, look up, play, pop in, run in, see, stop by, stop in, swing by |
| Main Entry: | accost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | approach for conversation or solicitation |
| Synonyms: | address, annoy, bother, brace*, buttonhole, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, flag, greet, hail, proposition, run into, salute, welcome, whistle for |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge, evade, ignore, scorn, shun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
| Synonyms: | approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | announce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a proclamation |
| Synonyms: | advertise, annunciate, blast, blazon, broadcast, call, communicate, declare, disclose, disseminate, divulge, drum, give out, impart, intimate, issue, make known, make public, pass the word, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publicize, publish, release, report, reveal, run off at mouth, sound off, spread around, state, tell, trumpet |
| Notes: | to announce is to make known publicly; to pronounce is to declare officially or formally |
| Antonyms: | bottle up, conceal, keep secret, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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