Synonyms of the word

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.

affirm

• v. To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
• v. To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
• v. To support or encourage.
• v. To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or…

archer

• n. One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
• n. (historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.
• adj. comparative form of arch: more arch.

assert

• n. (computer science) an assertion; a section of source code which tests whether an expected condition is…
• v. To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
• v. To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
• v. To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
• v. (computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1.

assure

• v. (transitive) To make sure and secure.
• v. (transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).
• v. (obsolete) To guarantee, promise (to do something).
• v. To reassure.

aver

• n. (obsolete) Possessions, property, belongings, wealth.
• v. To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner.
• v. (law) To prove or justify a plea.
• v. (obsolete) To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify.
• n. (dialectal) A work-horse, working ox, or other beast of burden.

avow

• v. (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess…
• v. (transitive) To bind or devote by a vow.
• v. (law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
• n. (obsolete) avowal.

bowman

• n. (archery) A man who uses a bow; an archer.
• n. (nautical) The person, in a team or among oarsmen, positioned nearest the bow.

differentiate

• v. (transitive) To show, or be the distinction between two things.
• v. (intransitive) To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To modify, or be modified.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
• v. (intransitive, biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development…

distinguish

• v. To see someone or something as different from others.
• v. To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.
• v. To make oneself noticeably different or better from others through accomplishments.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make to differ.

enjoin

• v. (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct…
• v. (transitive, law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

evidence

• n. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
• n. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
• n. One who bears witness.
• v. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

express

• adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
• adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
• adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
• adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
• n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
• n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
• n. An express rifle.
• n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
• n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
• n. An express office.
• n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
• v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
• v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
• v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
• v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
• n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
• n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

identify

• v. (transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
• v. (transitive, biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
• v. (transitive) To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.
• v. (reflexive) To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
• v. (intransitive) To associate oneself with some group.
• v. (intransitive) To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of…

infer

• v. (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction,…
• v. (transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially…
• v. (obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
• v. (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

inform

• v. (archaic, transitive) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
• v. (transitive) To communicate knowledge to.
• v. (intransitive) To impart information or knowledge.
• v. To act as an informer; denounce.
• v. (transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To direct, guide.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
• adj. Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

narrate

• v. (transitive) To relate a story or series of events by speech or writing.
• v. To give an account.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

recite

• v. (transitive) To repeat aloud some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, often before an audience.
• v. (transitive) To list or enumerate something.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a recitation.

recount

• n. Retelling, narration, rendering.
• v. To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
• v. (dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.
• n. A counting again, as of votes.
• v. To count or reckon again.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

say

• v. (transitive) To pronounce.
• v. (transitive) To recite.
• v. To tell, either verbally or in writing.
• v. To indicate in a written form.
• v. (impersonal) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate…
• v. (informal, imperative) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
• v. (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
• v. (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension,…
• n. One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
• adv. For example; let us assume.
• interj. (colloquial) Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion.
• n. A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
• v. To try; to assay.
• n. Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
• n. Tried quality; temper; proof.
• n. Essay; trial; attempt.

secern

• v. To discriminate, distinguish.
• v. (medicine) To secrete.

secernate

• v. secern.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

severalize

• v. (transitive) To distinguish; to make or treat as several.

state

• n. A polity.
• n. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• n. High social standing or circumstance.
• n. (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random…
• v. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
• v. (transitive) To make known.
• adj. (obsolete) stately.

swan

• n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
• n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
• n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
• v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

swear

• v. (intransitive, transitive) To take an oath.
• v. (intransitive) To use offensive language.
• n. A swear word.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Top-heavy; too high.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Niggardly.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
• v. (Britain dialectal) To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours.

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.

verify

• v. (transitive) To substantiate or prove the truth of something.
• v. (transitive) To confirm or test the truth or accuracy of something.
• v. (transitive, law) To affirm something formally, under oath.