| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Sounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable: babel, clamor, din, hubbub, hullabaloo, pandemonium, racket, rumpus, tumult, uproar. See SOUNDS. 2. The sensation caused by vibrating wave motion that is perceived by the organs of hearing: sonance, sound1. See SOUNDS. | | VERB: | 1. To make (information) generally known: advertise, blaze2, blazon, broadcast, bruit, circulate, disseminate, promulgate, propagate, spread. Idioms: spread far and wide, spread the word. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. To engage in or spread gossip: blab, gossip, rumor, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, whisper. Idioms: tell tales, tell tales out of school. See WORDS.
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