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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | utter |
| Synonyms: | articulate, cant, chant, croon, modulate, recite, sing |
| Main Entry: | drawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lengthen, draw out |
| Synonyms: | chant, drag out, drone, extend, intone, nasalize, prolong, pronounce slowly, protract, utter |
| Antonyms: | clip, shorten |
| Main Entry: | drone |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | making noise continuously |
| Synonyms: | bombinate, buzz, chant, drawl, hum, intone, nasalize, purr, sound, strum, thrum, vibrate, whirr |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, enounce, express, intone, lay down, modulate, outline, phonate, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice |
| Antonyms: | mispronounce, muffle, mumble |
| Main Entry: | sing |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry a tune with one's voice |
| Synonyms: | belt out, burst into song, buzz*, canary, cantillate, carol, chant, chirp, choir, croon, descant, duet, groan*, harmonize, hum, hymn, intone, lift up a voice, line out, lullaby, make melody, mouth, pipe, purr, resound, roar, serenade, shout, singsong, solo, trill, troll, tune, vocalize, wait, warble, whine, whistle, yodel |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce words; inform |
| Synonyms: | articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing*, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak |
| Antonyms: | listen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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