noun
- The act of singing vocal music.
- synonyms: vocalizing
- Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.
verb
- Deliver by singing.
- usage: "Sing Christmas carols"
- synonyms: sing
- Produce tones with the voice.
- usage: "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well"
- synonyms: sing
- To make melodious sounds.
- usage: "The nightingale was singing"
- synonyms: sing
- Make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound.
- usage: "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear"
- Divulge confidential information or secrets.
- usage: "Be careful-his secretary talks"
- synonyms: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
- Burn superficially or lightly.
- usage: "I singed my eyebrows"
- Become superficially burned.
- usage: "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
adjective
- Smooth and flowing.
- synonyms: cantabile
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