Synonyms of the word

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

babble

• n. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
• n. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
• n. A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
• v. (intransitive) To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds.
• v. (intransitive) To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
• v. (intransitive) To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
• v. (transitive) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way…
• v. (transitive) To reveal; to give away (a secret).

blab

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• n. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

communicate

• v. To impart.
• v. To share.

conversation

• n. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or…
• n. (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
• n. (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
• n. (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life.
• n. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction.
• v. (nonstandard, transitive, intransitive) To engage in conversation (with).

disclose

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To open up, unfasten.
• v. (transitive) To uncover, physically expose to view.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.
• n. (obsolete) A disclosure.

discourse

• n. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
• n. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
• n. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
• n. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
• n. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can…
• n. (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
• v. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
• v. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

discover

• v. To find or learn something for the first time.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
• v. (transitive, now rare) To expose, uncover.
• v. (transitive, chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
• v. (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

discussion

• n. Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
• n. Text giving further detail on a subject.

divulge

• v. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a…
• v. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

expose

• v. (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
• v. (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
• v. (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
• v. To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to…
• v. (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

impart

• v. To give a part or share.
• v. To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
• v. To hold a conference or consultation.
• v. To obtain a share of; to partake of.

instruct

• v. (transitive) to teach by giving instructions.
• v. (transitive) to direct; to order (usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier…
• n. (obsolete) instruction.
• adj. (obsolete) arranged; furnished; provided.
• adj. (obsolete) instructed; taught; enlightened.

intercommunicate

• v. To communicate, one with another.
• v. To be interconnected.

learn

• v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
• v. To attend a course or other educational activity.
• v. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
• v. To be studying.
• v. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
• v. (now only in slang and dialects) To teach.

lecture

• n. A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
• n. A berating or scolding.
• n. (obsolete) The act of reading.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
• v. (transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

lecturing

• v. present participle of lecture.
• n. The act of delivering a lecture or harangue.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

peach

• n. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having…
• n. The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and…
• n. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
• n. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
• adj. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.
• n. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

reveal

• n. The outer side of a window or door frame; the jamb.
• n. (cinematography, comedy) A revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden.
• n. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, obsolete in the US) The side of an opening for a window, doorway,…
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.
• v. (transitive) To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural…

scuttlebutt

• n. (nautical, countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

sing

• v. (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
• v. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
• v. (transitive) To soothe with singing.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
• v. To make a small, shrill sound.
• v. To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
• v. (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
• n. A gathering for the purpose of singing songs.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.

spill

• v. (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
• v. (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
• v. (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
• v. To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
• v. (obsolete) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
• v. To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
• v. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
• v. (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled,…
• n. (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
• n. A fall or stumble.
• n. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from…
• n. A slender piece of anything.
• n. (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing…
• n. (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that…
• n. (obsolete) A small sum of money.
• n. (Australia, politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for…

talking

• n. The action of the verb talk.
• v. present participle of talk.

tattle

• v. (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip…
• v. (intransitive) To chatter.
• n. A tattletale.
• n. Gossip; idle talk.

teach

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
• v. (transitive) To pass on knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
• v. (transitive) To cause to learn or understand.
• n. (pejorative, informal) teacher.

tell

• v. (transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
• v. (transitive) To narrate.
• v. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
• v. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
• v. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
• v. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
• v. (transitive) To reveal.
• v. (intransitive) To be revealed.
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
• v. (transitive) To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
• v. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
• n. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts…
• n. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
• n. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
• n. (archaeology) A mound, originally in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

treatment

• n. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
• n. Medical care for an illness or injury.
• n. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
• n. (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
• n. (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
• n. (obsolete) entertainment; treat.

unwrap

• v. To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.