| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To direct speech to: address, talk. See WORDS. 2. To talk to an audience formally: address, lecture, prelect. Archaic : bespeak. See WORDS. 3. To engage in spoken exchange: chat, confabulate, converse1, discourse, talk. Informal : confab, visit. See WORDS. 4. To express oneself in speech: talk, verbalize, vocalize. Idioms: open one's mouth (or lips) , put in (or into) words, wag one's tongue. See WORDS. | | PHRASAL VERB: | speak for To serve as an official delegate of: represent, stand for. See SUBSTITUTE.
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