Definition of speak

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Speak (v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak..

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Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
Flippant :: Flippant (a.) Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative..
Riddler :: Riddler (n.) One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles..
Speakable :: Speakable (a.) Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.
Platform :: Platform (n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place..
Phonorganon :: Phonorganon (n.) A speaking machine.
Speke :: Speke (v. i. & t.) To speak.
Intelligibly :: Intelligibly (adv.) In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly..
Prose :: Prose (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition..
Misspeak :: Misspeak (v. t.) To utter wrongly.
Cacology :: Cacology (n.) Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words.
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Alternation :: Alternation (n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
Haw :: Haw (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation..
Hither :: Hither (adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither..
Free-tongued :: Free-tongued (a.) Speaking without reserve.
Philippize :: Philippize (v. i.) To write or speak in the style of a philippic.
Breviloquence :: Breviloquence (n.) A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.
Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..
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