Definition of speak

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Speak (v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.

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Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Digress :: Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking..
Lambdacism :: Lambdacism (n.) A fault in speaking or in composition, which consists in too frequent use of the letter l, or in doubling it erroneously..
Sounding-board :: Sounding-board (n.) A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
Defame :: Defame (v. t.) To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse..
Pulpit :: Pulpit (n.) A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker..
Forespeaking :: Forespeaking (n.) A prediction; also, a preface..
Center :: Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left..
Floor :: Floor (n.) The right to speak.
Gag :: Gag (v. t.) To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to..
Hem :: Hem (v. i.) To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking..
Man :: Man (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!.
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
Call :: Call (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
Freedom :: Freedom (n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom..
Outspeak :: Outspeak (v. t.) To express more than.
Whisper :: Whisper (n.) To speak with suspicion, or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting..
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who speaks.
Apologist :: Apologist (n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity..
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