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| Main Entry: |
narrate
 [nar-eyt, na-reyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, detail |
| Synonyms: | characterize, chronicle, delineate, depict, descant, disclose, discourse, enumerate, expatiate, give an account of, hold forth, make known, paint, picture, portray, proclaim, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, reveal, set forth, spin, state, tell, tell a story, unfold |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, suppress |
| Main Entry: | chronicle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | report, recount |
| Synonyms: | enter, narrate, record, register, relate, set down, tell |
| Antonyms: | hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | confess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | admit, confirm |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, affirm, allow, assert, attest, aver, avow, blow, blurt out, chirp, clue in, come clean, come out, concede, confide, declare, disclose, divulge, dump on, evince, finger*, fink, grant, humble oneself, leak*, let on, level with, make clean breast of, manifest, narrate, open one's heart, own, own up, post, profess, prove, rat on, recognize, relate, reveal, sing*, snitch, sound off, spill the beans, spit out, squeal, tip hand, unload, vent, weasel |
| Antonyms: | conceal, deny, disavow, disown, hide, mask, repudiate, secrete |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Also, it sports myriad manual controls, along with a microphone so you can narrate images as you shoot them.
- Or to the seething anger that those stories narrate.
- Nothing can be more conclusive upon this point than the facts they narrate.
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe in published writing |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, detail, investigate, narrate, recount, relate, report, tell of, write up |
| Antonyms: | disregard, forget, ignore |
| Main Entry: | depict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe, render in drawing or writing |
| Synonyms: | characterize, delineate, design, detail, illustrate, image, interpret, limn, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, relate, report, represent, reproduce, sculpt, sketch, state |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, mix up |
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, convey image, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, name, narrate, outline, paint, particularize, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | detail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | specify, make clear |
| Synonyms: | analyze, catalog, circumstantiate, communicate, delineate, depict, describe, designate, elaborate, embellish, enumerate, epitomize, exhibit, fly speck, get down to brass tacks, individualize, itemize, lay out, narrate, particularize, portray, produce, quote chapter and verse, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, reveal, set forth, show, specialize, spell out, spread, stipulate, summarize, sweat details, tell, uncover |
| Antonyms: | hide, misrepresent, suppress, withhold |
| Main Entry: | recount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell a story |
| Synonyms: | break a story, convey, delineate, depict, describe, detail, echo, enumerate, give an account of, itemize, narrate, picture, play back, portray, recap, recapitulate, recite, rehash, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, run by again, run down, run through, say again, state, tell, track, unload, verbalize |
| Antonyms: | conceal, repress |
| Main Entry: | rehearse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare for performance |
| Synonyms: | act, depict, describe, do over, drill, dry run, experiment, go over, go through, hold a reading, hone, iterate, learn one's part, narrate, practice, ready, recapitulate, recite, recount, reenact, reiterate, relate, repeat, review, run lines, run through, study, take from the top, tell, test, train, try out, tune up, walk through, warm up, work out |
| Antonyms: | go cold turkey |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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