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say
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of SAY
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to express (a thought or emotion) in words <why don't you just say what's on your mind?>
Synonyms articulate, bring out, enunciate, pass, speak, state, talk, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize
Related Words air, discuss, give, look, share, sound, vent, ventilate, voice; blabber, bolt, blurt, get off, shoot; advertise, announce, blaze, broadcast, declare, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow; breathe, chirp, drawl, gasp, lip, mouth, murmur, purr, shout, splutter, spout, whisper; clothe, couch, formulate, formulize, phrase, put, word; comment, pipe up (with), remark; rip (out), snarl
Phrases put into words
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to convey in appropriate or telling terms <I'm not quite sure how to say this, but that's the worst essay I've ever read>
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to take as true or as a fact without actual proof <let's say, for the sake of argument, that this is true>
Related Words accept, believe, credit, swallow; conclude, deduce, gather, infer, judge, take; conjecture, figure, guess, reckon [chiefly dialect], surmise, suspect, suspicion [chiefly dialect], think; conceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceive; speculate, theorize; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess
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