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| Main Entry: | express |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | articulate; signify, mean |
| Synonyms: | add up to*, air, assert, asseverate, bespeak, broach, circulate, communicate, connote, convey, couch, declare, denote, depict, designate, disclose, divulge, embody, enunciate, evince, exhibit, formulate, frame*, give, hint, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, intimate, manifest, phrase, proclaim, pronounce, put, represent, reveal, say, show, speak, spell, stand for, state, suggest, symbolize, tell, testify, utter, vent, ventilate, verbalize, voice, word, make known, pop off*, put across, put into words |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | express |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge by squeezing or force |
| Synonyms: | crush, dispatch, distill, expel, extract, forward, ship, force out, press out, squeeze out |
| Main Entry: | articulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | say clearly, coherently |
| Synonyms: | enunciate, express, mouth, pronounce, say, speak, state, talk, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, sound off |
| Notes: | loquacious means very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
| Antonyms: | bumble, misrepresent, misspeak |
| Main Entry: | breathe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell information |
| Synonyms: | articulate, confide, express, murmur, say, sigh, utter, voice, whisper |
| Antonyms: | hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | comment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make statement of opinion, explanation |
| Synonyms: | affirm, annotate, assert, bring out, clarify, conclude, construe, criticize, disclose, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, express, gloss, illustrate, interject, interpose, interpret, mention, note, notice, observe, opine, point out, pronounce, reflect, remark, say, state, animadvert, commentate, pass on, touch upon |
| Antonyms: | refrain, keep quiet |
| Main Entry: | connote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imply |
| Synonyms: | add up to, betoken, denote, designate, evidence, express, import, indicate, insinuate, intend, intimate, involve, mean, signify, spell, suggest, hint at |
| Antonyms: | denote |
| Main Entry: | courier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | messenger |
| Synonyms: | bearer, carrier, emissary, envoy, express, go-between, gofer*, herald, runner, dispatcher, gopher, intelligencer, internuncio |
| Antonyms: | receiver, sender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compress, smash |
| Synonyms: | beat, bray, break, bruise, buck, crease, crowd, crumble, crunch, embrace, enfold, express, hug, jam, mash, pound, powder, press, pulverize, push, romp, rumple, squash, squeeze, squish, total*, trample, tread, triturate, wrinkle, comminute, contriturate, contuse, kablooey |
| Antonyms: | release, let go, uncompress, unwrinkle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | announce, proclaim |
| Synonyms: | address, bring out, broach, come out with, communicate, declare, express, give, impart, present, pronounce, publish, read, say, state, tell, throw out, utter, vent, voice, chime in, give forth |
| Antonyms: | keep, withhold, be quiet |
| Main Entry: | demonstrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain, illustrate |
| Synonyms: | confirm, debunk, describe, express, proclaim, teach, give for instance, make clear, ostend, set forth, show how, testify to, walk one through |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, falsify, misrepresent |
| 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: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, name, narrate, outline, paint, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, convey image, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, particularize, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | dispatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry, send fast |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, address, consign, dismiss, express, forward, hasten, issue, quicken, railroad*, remit, route, ship, speed, transmit, hand-carry, run with, run with ball, walk through |
| Antonyms: | hold, hold back, keep, prohibit, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pure; draw out something |
| Synonyms: | brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, infuse, precipitate, press, purify, rectify, refine, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, boil down, cut to the bone, get to the meat, press out, rarefy, squeeze out, volatilize |
| Antonyms: | dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | draw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create a likeness in a picture |
| Synonyms: | caricature, chart, compose, crayon, delineate, depict, describe, design, draft, engrave, etch, express, form, formulate, frame, graph, limn, mark, model, outline, paint, portray, prepare, profile, sketch, trace, write, map out, pencil |
| Main Entry: | embody |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | represent; materialize |
| Synonyms: | actualize, complete, demonstrate, epitomize, evince, exemplify, exhibit, express, illustrate, incarnate, incorporate, manifest, mirror, objectify, personify, realize, show, stand for, substantiate, symbolize, typify, concretize, emblematize, exteriorize, externalize, hypostatize, personalize, reify |
| Antonyms: | exclude, disembody |
| 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: | exhibit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on view; present |
| Synonyms: | advertise, air, brandish, demonstrate, disclose, display, disport, evidence, evince, expose, express, feature, flash, flaunt, illustrate, indicate, manifest, mark, offer, parade, proclaim, reveal, show, show and tell*, show off, trot out*, let it all hang out, make clear, make plain, ostend, parade wares, roll out, showcase, strut stuff, wave around |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk about in great detail |
| Synonyms: | clarify, comment, construe, delineate, describe, discourse, elucidate, exemplify, explain, explicate, express, illustrate, interpret, present, spell out, state, unfold, enucleate, set forth |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically remove, draw out |
| Synonyms: | bring out, cull, derive, distill, eke out, elicit, eradicate, evoke, exact, express, extirpate, extort, extricate, garner, gather, get, glean, obtain, pick up, pluck, pry, pull, reap, secure, select, separate, siphon, squeeze, take, tear, uproot, withdraw, wrest, wring, yank, avulse, catheterize, evulse, press out, weed out |
| Antonyms: | add, insert, put in |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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