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tell
verb as in communicate
Strongest matches
advise, announce, confess, declare, disclose, explain, express, inform, instruct, mention, notify, order, report, reveal, say, speak, state, summon
Strong matches
acquaint, apprise, authorize, bid, command, direct, divulge, enjoin, impart, leak, level, proclaim, recite, represent, require, utter
Weak matches
break the news, call upon, clue in, fill in, give facts, give out, keep posted, lay open, leave word, let in on, let know, let slip, make known, open up, put before, reel off, spit it out
verb as in narrate, describe
verb as in understand, discern
Strong matches
ascertain, clinch, comprehend, deduce, determine, differentiate, discover, discriminate, distinguish, divine, perceive, recognize
Weak matches
verb as in carry weight
Weak matches
have effect, have force, make presence felt, make presence known, take effect, take its toll
Example Sentences
But as far as the pitch, I tell people: “You should be skeptical of me.”
"We can't live in a country where people are afraid to go into the woods," the prime minister told reporters afterwards.
Sir James Eadie, the First Treasury Counsel, told the court there was no obligation for the government to subsidise private education in any way.
“It’s just 10 million stories and timelines,” he told the trade, “so I’m trying to narrow stuff down.”
“When you watch ‘The Sound of Music,’” she tells Meyers later in the bit, “you have to root for the singing children and the other people.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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