speak

1. Express in speech (synset 200944022)
   "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
   is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings
   subtypes:

   • read - look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
   • phonate, vocalise, vocalize - utter speech sounds
   • troll - speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
   • begin - begin to speak or say
   • lip off, shoot one's mouth off - speak spontaneously and without restraint
   • shout - utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking)
   • whisper - speak softly; in a low voice
   • peep - speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice
   • speak up - speak louder; raise one's voice
   • snap, snarl - utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
   • enthuse - utter with enthusiasm
   • speak in tongues - speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy
   • swallow - utter indistinctly
   • verbalise, verbalize - be verbose
   • whiff - utter with a puff of air
   • talk about, talk of - discuss or mention
   • blubber, blubber out - utter while crying
   • drone, drone on - talk in a monotonous voice
   • bumble, falter, stammer, stutter - speak haltingly
   • rasp - utter in a grating voice
   • blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate - utter impulsively
   • inflect, modulate, tone - vary the pitch of one's speech
   • deliver, present - deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
   • generalise, generalize - speak or write in generalities
   • blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
   • chatter - make noise as if chattering away
   • jaw, rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away - talk incessantly and tiresomely
   • open up - talk freely and without inhibition
   • snivel, whine - talk in a tearful manner
   • murmur - speak softly or indistinctly
   • maunder, mumble, mussitate, mutter - talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
   • slur - utter indistinctly
   • bark - speak in an unfriendly tone
   • bay - utter in deep prolonged tones
   • jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout - talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
   • hiss, sibilate, siss, sizz - express or utter with a hiss
   • cackle - talk or utter in a cackling manner
   • babble - utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
   • chant, intone, tone - utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
   • gulp - utter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly
   • sing - produce tones with the voice
   same as: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
   verb group: verbalise, verbalize - be verbose
2. Exchange thoughts;
   Talk with (synset 200964479)
   "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
   is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings
   subtypes:

   • carry on, continue, go on, proceed - continue talking
   • discourse, dissertate, hold forth - talk at length and formally about a topic
   • pontificate - talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
   • orate - talk pompously
   • talk down - speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child
   • spiel - speak at great length (about something)
   • dogmatise, dogmatize - speak dogmatically
   • cheek - speak impudently to
   • level - talk frankly with; lay it on the line
   • talk turkey - discuss frankly, often in a business context
   • monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquize - talk to oneself
   • converse, discourse - carry on a conversation
   • butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
   • dish the dirt, gossip - wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
   • rap - talk volubly
   same as: talk
3. Use language (synset 200965602)
   "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
   is a type of: communicate, intercommunicate - transmit thoughts or feelings
   subtypes:

   • run on - talk or narrate at length
   • smatter - speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
   • slang - use slang or vulgar language
   same as: talk
4. Give a speech to (synset 200991233)
   "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
   entail: speak, talk - use language
   subtypes:

   • blaze away - speak with fire and passion
   • memorialise, memorialize - address in a memorial
   • keynote - give the keynote address to (an audience)
   • harangue - deliver a harangue to; address forcefully
   same as: address
5. Make a characteristic or natural sound (synset 202140072)
   "The drums spoke"
   is a type of: sound - give off a certain sound or sounds

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