speak
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Definitions
                    Verb
                    
                express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
                
                    Verb
                    
                exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
                
                    Verb
                    
                use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won''t speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
                
                    Verb
                    
                give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
                
                    Verb
                    
            make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"
                More Specific Terms
                    babble
                    bark
                    bay
                    begin
                    blab
                    blabber
                    blaze away
                    blubber
                    blubber out
                    blunder
                    blunder out
                    blurt
                    blurt out
                    bumble
                    butterfly
                    cackle
                    carry on
                    chant
                    chat up
                    chatter
                    cheek
                    clack
                    continue
                    converse
                    coquet
                    coquette
                    dally
                    deliver
                    discourse
                    dish the dirt
                    dissertate
                    dogmatise
                    dogmatize
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                    drone on
                    ejaculate
                    enthuse
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                    gabble
                    generalise
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                    go on
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                    harangue
                    hiss
                    hold forth
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                    intone
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                    jaw
                    keynote
                    level
                    lip off
                    mash
                    maunder
                    memorialise
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                    modulate
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                    mouth off
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                    murmur
                    mussitate
                    mutter
                    open up
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                    peep
                    philander
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                    prattle
                    present
                    proceed
                    rabbit on
                    rant
                    rap
                    rasp
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                    read
                    romance
                    run on
                    shoot one''s mouth off
                    shout
                    sibilate
                    sing
                    siss
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                    slang
                    slur
                    smatter
                    snap
                    snarl
                    snivel
                    soliloquise
                    soliloquize
                    speak in tongues
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                    spiel
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                    swallow
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                    talk down
                    talk of
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                    tattle
                    tittle-tattle
                    tone
                    troll
                    twaddle
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                    vocalise
                    vocalize
                    whiff
                    whine
                    whisper
                    yack
                    yack away
                    yap away