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Speak

verb

(past spoke, archaic spake; past part. spoken, obs. or colloq. spoke; pres. part. speaking)

Express in speech. Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize. "This depressed patient does not verbalize"

Exchange thoughts; talk with. Synonym: talk. "Actions talk louder than words"

Use language. Synonym: talk. "The prisoner won't speak" , "They speak a strange dialect"

Give a speech to. Synonym: address.

Make a characteristic or natural sound.

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"Speak" Quotes from Famous Books

... returned Banks sharply. "We HAVE gone about, and we're not going into Mazatlan at all. It's scandalous! I'll speak to the captain—I'll complain to the consignees—I've got business at ...

— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte

... the meantime we must say a word about his critical method when applied to Life, and when applied to Books. When one speaks of criticism, one is generally thinking of prose. But, when we speak of Arnold's criticism, it is necessary to widen the scope of one's observation; for he was never more essentially the critic than when he concealed the true character of his method in the guise of poetry. Even if we decline to accept his strange judgment that all poetry "is at bottom a ...

— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell

... or James, it is all one to Mrs. Oliphant, with her theory of Charlotte Bronte. "For her and her class, which did not speak of it, everything depended upon whether the women married or did not marry. Their thoughts were thus artificially fixed to one point in the horizon." The rest is repetition, ending in the astounding verdict: "The seed she thus sowed has ...

— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair

... fever. The night was very bad. On Thursday, the 11th of February, at nine o'clock in the morning, the King entered the Dauphine's chamber, which Madame de Maintenon scarcely ever left, except when he was in her apartments. The Princess was so ill that it was resolved to speak to her of receiving the sacrament. Prostrated though she was she was surprised at this. She put some questions as to her state; replies as little terrifying as possible were given to her, and little by little she was warned against delay. Grateful ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... that," said the canny Scot. "Muster Girdlestone kens on which side his bread is buttered. He may wish 'em to sink or he may wish 'em to swim. That's no for us to judge. You'll hear him speak o't to-night as like as not, for he's aye on it when he's half over. Here we are, sir. The corner edifice wi' the red blinds ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

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