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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise, make known |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, annunciate, blast, blaze, blazon, broadcast, call, circulate, declare, demonstrate, disseminate, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, expound, get on a soapbox, give out, herald, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, ostend, pass the word, profess, promulgate, publish, shoot off mouth, shout out, show, sound off, spiel*, spout, spread it around, stump, trumpet, utter, vent, ventilate, voice |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advertise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | publicize for the purpose of selling or causing one to want |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advance, advise, announce, apprise, ballyhoo, beat the drum for, bill, blazon, boost*, build up, circularize, communicate, declare, disclose, display, divulge, drum, endorse, exhibit, expose, flaunt, get on soapbox for, hard sell, herald, hype*, inform, make a pitch, make known, notify, pitch, plug, press agent, proclaim, promote, promulgate, puff, push, put on the map, reveal, show, soft sell, splash*, sponsor, spot, tout, uncover, unmask |
| Antonyms: | hide, keep secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | air |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | express opinion publicly |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, circulate, communicate, declare, disclose, display, disseminate, divulge, exhibit, expose, make known, make public, proclaim, publicize, publish, put, reveal, speak, state, tell, utter, ventilate, voice |
| Antonyms: | be quiet, suppress |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | assert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insist, declare, maintain |
| Synonyms: | advance, affirm, allege, argue, asservate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, butt in, cite, claim, contend, defend, horn in, justify, mouth off, pop off, predicate, press, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put forward, say, shoot off one's mouth, shoot one's wad, stand up for, state, stress, swear, uphold, vindicate, warrant |
| Antonyms: | deny, reject |
| Main Entry: | avow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | state; profess |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, admit, affirm, allow, assert, aver, avouch, concede, confess, cross one's heart, declare, grant, maintain, own up, proclaim, swear, swear on bible, swear up and down |
| Antonyms: | censure, condemn, deny, disclaim, disown, dispute, renounce, repudiate |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell news |
| Synonyms: | announce, come out, communicate, convey, disclose, divulge, impart, inform, let out, make public, pass on, proclaim, reveal, tell, transmit |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Antonyms: | hide, keep quiet, secret |
| Main Entry: | broadcast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make public |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, annunciate, blare, blazon, circulate, communicate, declare, disseminate, distribute, proclaim, promulgate, publish, report, sow, spread, strew, troll |
| Antonyms: | hide, keep quiet, secret |
| Main Entry: | call |
| 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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