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Verb talk has 6 senses
- talk, speak - exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
--1 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue talk
- talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
--2 is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- 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 talk
- spill, talk - reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
--4 is one way to tell
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out - divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
--5 is one way to disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
Antonyms: keep quiet, shut one's mouth, keep one's mouth shut
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- lecture, talk - deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
--6 is one way to teach, learn, instruct
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue talk
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