Verb

To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

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To have a conversation.

(by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

To be able to communicate in a language.

To utter.

* 1611 , (Authorized King James Version) (Bible translation), 9:5:

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.

(informal, transitive, sometimes, humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).

To produce a sound; to sound.

* Shakespeare

Make all our trumpets speak .

(archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.

* Bible, Ecclus. xiii. 6

[He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.

* Emerson

Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.

Verb

(en verb)

To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.

* Dryden

Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.

To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

The audience roared at his jokes.

Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.

* Spenser

Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.

* Milton

The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .

* Gray

How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .

(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.

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To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

* Ford

This last action will roar thy infamy.

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To be boisterous; to be disorderly.

* Bishop Burnet

It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.