say

say
v
1. utter, vocalize, pronounce, announce, speak, mouth; word, put in words, phrase, articulate; answer, respond, reply, rejoin, retort; remark, come out with, communicate, convey; state, declare, tell, impart; present, mention, add, put, put before; reveal, let out, divulge, disclose, make known, cry, noise abroad; breathe, whisper, betray.
2. repeat, recite, declaim, orate, deliver, rehearse, render.
3. estimate, predict, predicate, speculate, hypothesize, conjecture, hazard a guess; assume, judge, imagine; promise, imply, give the implication or impression that.
4. report, allege, asseverate, aver, avow, avouch; attest, testify, certify, vouch; depose, bear witness, give evidence, give one's word, warrant; profess, claim, purport, pretend; impute, insinuate; cite, name, attribute, assign, ascribe; adduce, advance, bring forward, bring to attention, introduce; offer, propose, plead.
n
5. statement, expression, utterance, representation; pronouncement, announcement, dictum, manifesto; recital, recitation, repetition; monologue, soliloquy, speech, talk; pronouncement, assertion, proclamation, predication; averment, avowal, asseveration, assurance, promise, pledge, word, say-so; allegation, affirmation, protestation, profession, acknowledgement.
6. turn, Inf. crack, Inf. turn at bat, chance to speak, Sl. two cents' worth, right to speak; vote, option, prerogative, privilege, influence, weight, sway

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