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speak > 5 senses
VERB	1	speak, talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise	Express in speech
	2	speak, talk	Exchange thoughts
	3	speak, talk	Use language
	4	speak, address	Give a speech to
	5	speak	Make a characteristic or natural sound

speak > pronunciation
Sounds	spiy'k
Rhymes	antique, batik, beak, and 50 more rhymes in iyk...

speak > verb 1, communication
Meaning	Express in speech.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP
Synonyms	talk, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Similar to	verbalize, verbalise
Broader	communicate, intercommunicate
See also	speak up
Narrower	read; vocalize, vocalise, phonate; troll; begin; lip off, shoot one's mouth off; shout; whisper; peep; speak up; snap, snarl; enthuse; speak in tongues; swallow; verbalize, verbalise; whiff; talk of, talk about; blubber, blubber out; drone, drone on; bumble, stutter, stammer, falter; rasp; blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate; tone, inflect, modulate; deliver, present; generalize, generalise; chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble; chatter; yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away; open up; snivel, whine; murmur; mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate; slur; bark; bay; rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave; hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate; cackle; babble; tone, chant, intone; gulp; sing
Entailed by	pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say; declaim, recite
Nouns	speaking; speaker; speech

speak > verb 2, communication
Meaning	Exchange thoughts. Talk with.
Pattern	Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s to somebody
Synonyms	talk
Broader	communicate, intercommunicate
See also	speak for
Narrower	continue, go on, carry on, proceed; hold forth, discourse, dissertate; pontificate; orate; talk down; spiel; dogmatize, dogmatise; cheek; level; talk turkey; monologuize, monologuise, soliloquize, soliloquise; converse, discourse; chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash; dish the dirt, gossip; rap
Nouns	speech

speak > verb 3, communication
Meaning	Use language.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
Model	Sam and Sue speak
Examples	"the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
Synonyms	talk
Broader	communicate, intercommunicate
Narrower	run on; smatter; slang
Entailed by	address, speak
Nouns	speaking; speech

speak > verb 4, communication
Meaning	Give a speech to.
Pattern	Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody
Synonyms	address
Narrower	blaze away; memorialize, memorialise; keynote; harangue
Entails	speak, talk
Entailed by	take the floor
Nouns	speech; speaking

speak > verb 5, perception
Meaning	Make a characteristic or natural sound.
Pattern	Something ----s
Broader	sound

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