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speak
verb as in talk
Strongest matches
chat, communicate, convey, declare, deliver, express, go, say, shout, tell, utter, voice, whisper
Strong matches
allege, articulate, assert, aver, blab, chew, converse, descant, discourse, drawl, enunciate, expatiate, gab, gas, jaw, modulate, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, perorate, pronounce, rap, sound, spiel, spill, state, verbalize, vocalize, yak, yammer
Weak matches
break silence, lip, make known, make public, open one's mouth, pop off, put into words, speak one's piece, yakety-yak
Example Sentences
"It's taken 35 years to speak, that's how frightened I've been of speaking," she says.
"I want to stand up for victims of abuse, whether corporate or domestic, to let them know that they can speak up too."
“You realize he didn’t speak out loud during that day. Human beings are meant to be convivial and social — the default setting for a lot of us is that we need other people around. Ted’s character Charles is a guy who’s still perfectly vibrant, very sharp, alive in the world, but his life has just gotten very small. And the question is — for him and for the audience — can he go through something that makes him see the value in living a bigger life?”
Stressing "I do not speak as a Labour person", he said "any government of any colour would have been forced to make that decision, or something very like that decision, at that particular time".
In newly released audio recorded while he was in jail and featured in a new documentary, Manson appears to speak about previously unknown killings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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