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| Main Entry: | announce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a proclamation |
| Synonyms: | advertise, blast, blazon, broadcast, call, communicate, declare, disclose, disseminate, divulge, drum*, impart, intimate, issue, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, report, reveal, state, tell, trumpet, annunciate, give out, make known, make public, pass the word, propound, run off at mouth, sound off, spread around |
| Notes: | to announce is to make known publicly; to pronounce is to declare officially or formally |
| Antonyms: | bottle up, conceal, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold, keep secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | announce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | declare arrival |
| Synonyms: | augur, forebode, forecast, foretell, harbinger, herald, indicate, portend, predict, presage, signal, signify, forerun, foreshow |
| Antonyms: | hide, withhold, be quiet |
| Main Entry: | advertise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | publicize for the purpose of selling or causing one to want |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advance, advise, announce, apprise, ballyhoo*, beat the drum for*, bill, blazon, boost*, build up, communicate, declare, disclose, display, divulge, drum*, endorse, exhibit, expose, flaunt, hard sell, herald, hype*, inform, notify, pitch, plug, press agent*, proclaim, promote, promulgate, puff*, push, reveal, show, soft sell, splash*, sponsor, spot, tout, uncover, unmask, circularize, get on soapbox for, make a pitch, make known, put on the map |
| Antonyms: | hide, keep secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affirm, vouch for |
| Synonyms: | adjure, announce, argue, assert, authenticate, aver, bear out, bear witness, certify, confirm, corroborate, countersign, declare, demonstrate, display, exhibit, indicate, prove, ratify, seal, show, substantiate, support, sustain, swear, testify, uphold, verify, warrant, witness, asservate, give evidence |
| Antonyms: | deny |
| Main Entry: | decree |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | order rule or action |
| Synonyms: | announce, command, compel, constrain, decide, declare, demand, determine, dictate, enact, force, impose, lay down the law, oblige, ordain, prescribe, proclaim, pronounce, put one's foot down, read the riot act, require, rule, set |
| Main Entry: | denote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | designate, mean |
| Synonyms: | announce, argue, bespeak, betoken, connote, evidence, express, finger, flash, imply, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, make, mark, peg, prove, show, signify, spell, stand for, symbol, symbolize, tab, tag, typify, add up, hang sign on, put down for, put finger on |
| Main Entry: | disseminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute, scatter |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, blaze, blazon, broadcast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disperse, dissipate, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publicize, publish, radiate, sow, spread, strew, annunciate, disject |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | enunciate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak clearly |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, articulate, declare, deliver, develop, express, intone, modulate, outline, postulate, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, publish, say, show, sound, state, submit, utter, vocalize, voice, enounce, lay down, phonate, propound |
| Antonyms: | muffle, mumble, mispronounce |
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope*, figure, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, forewarn, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, read, reveal, signify, tell, auspicate, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, dope out*, figure out*, foreknow, make book, psych, see something coming, soothsay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | herald |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring message |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, ballyhoo*, broadcast, declare, harbinger, indicate, portend, precede, presage, proclaim, promise, publicize, publish, show, tout, trumpet*, forerun, foretoken, pave the way, preindicate, usher in* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | signify, display |
| Synonyms: | add up to, announce, argue, attest, augur, bespeak, betoken, card, connote, demonstrate, denote, designate, evidence, evince, express, finger, hint, illustrate, imply, import, intimate, make, manifest, mark, mean, name, peg*, pinpoint*, point out, prove, read, record, register, reveal, show, sign, signal, slot, specify, suggest, symbolize, tab, tag, testify, witness, be symptomatic, button down, pin down, point to |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, mislead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest; tip off |
| Synonyms: | affirm, air, allude, announce, assert, aver, communicate, connote, declare, expose, express, hint, impart, imply, indicate, infer, insinuate, leak, profess, remind, spill the beans*, spring, state, utter, vent, voice, warn, avouch, drop a hint, let cat out of bag, let it be known, make known, make noise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | notify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inform |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, advise, air, alert, announce, apprise, assert, blazon, brief, broadcast, cable, caution, circulate, convey, cue, debrief, declare, disclose, disseminate, divulge, enlighten, express, fill in, give, herald, hint, mention, pass out, post, proclaim, promulgate, publish, radio, report, reveal, speak, spread, state, suggest, talk, teach, telephone, tell, vent, warn, wire, write, clue in, let in on, let know, make known, send word, tip off, wise up |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, suppress |
| Main Entry: | premise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hypothesize |
| Synonyms: | announce, assume, begin, commence, introduce, postulate, predicate, presume, presuppose, start, state, suppose, posit |
| Antonyms: | be factual |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict or have a feeling |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, announce, augur, betoken, bode, divine, feel, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, harbinger, herald, omen, portend, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, sense, signify, warn, forerun, foreshow, foretoken, intuit, point to, preindicate, soothsay, vaticinate |
| Main Entry: | proclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise, make known |
| Synonyms: | affirm, announce, blast, blaze, blazon, broadcast, call, circulate, declare, demonstrate, disseminate, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, expound, herald, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, profess, promulgate, publish, show, spiel*, spout, stump*, trumpet*, utter, vent, ventilate, voice, annunciate, get on a soapbox, give out, ostend, pass the word, shoot off mouth, shout out, sound off, spread it around |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | profess |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | declare, assert |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, admit, affirm, allege, announce, asseverate, aver, avow, certify, claim, come out*, confess, confirm, croon, depose, dissemble, fake, feign, maintain, make out, own, predicate, pretend, proclaim, purport, sing*, spiel*, spout*, state, stump*, vouch, act as if, avouch, blow hot air, constate, cross heart, get off chest, get on soapbox, open up, own up, say so, soapbox, swear on bible, swear up and down, talk big |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | promulgate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, broadcast, call, circulate, communicate, declare, decree, disseminate, drum, issue, notify, proclaim, promote, publish, sound, spread, toot, trumpet, annunciate, make public, pass the word |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | publicize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make widely known; promote |
| Synonyms: | advance, advertise, announce, bill, boost*, broadcast, build up*, cry, drum*, extol, hard sell, headline, hype*, immortalize, pitch, play up*, plug*, promulgate, puff*, push, splash, spot*, spotlight*, spread, tout, trumpet*, billboard, make a pitch for, press-agent, propagandize, put on the map, skywrite, soft-sell, write up |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, secret |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | publish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have printed, issue |
| Synonyms: | announce, bring out, broadcast, circulate, communicate, declare, disclose, distribute, divulge, print, proclaim, produce, promulgate, publicize, put out, report, spotlight, let it be known, put in print |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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