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| VERB: | 1. To utter publicly: air, put, state, vent, ventilate. Idioms: come out with. See SHOW, WORDS. 2. To give expression to, as by gestures, facial aspects, or bodily posture: communicate, convey, display, manifest. See SHOW. 3. To convey in language or words of a particular form: couch, formulate, phrase, put, word. See WORDS. 4. To present a lifelike image of: delineate, depict, describe, image, limn, picture, portray, render, represent, show. See SHOW. 5. To put into words: articulate, communicate, convey, declare, say, state, talk, tell, utter1, vent, verbalize, vocalize, voice. Idioms: give tongue (or vent) (or voice) to. See WORDS. 6. To extract from by applying pressure: crush, press, squeeze. See TIGHTEN. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Clearly, fully, and sometimes emphatically expressed: categorical, clear, clear-cut, decided, definite, explicit, positive, precise, specific, unambiguous, unequivocal. See CLEAR. 2. Fixed and distinct from others: particular, set1, special, specific. See SPECIFIC.
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