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Adjective spoken has 2 senses
- spoken - uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken"
Antonyms: written, backhand, left-slanting, cursive, engrossed, graphic, graphical, in writing, handwritten, inscribed, longhand, printed, scrivened, shorthand, transcribed, typed, typewritten, holographic, scrawled
- spoken, vocal - using the voice in speech; "vocal communication"; "either silent or vocal prayers"; "vocal noises"
Antonyms: unvoiced, voiceless (indirect, via voiced)
Verb speak has 5 senses
- talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
--1 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
--2 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to somebody
- speak, talk - use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
--3 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue speak
- address, speak - give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
- speak - make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"
--5 is one way to sound
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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