noun
- An exchange of ideas via conversation.
- usage: "let's have more work and less talk around here"
- synonyms: talk
verb
- Exchange thoughts; talk with.
- usage: "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
- Express in speech.
- usage: "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
- Use language.
- usage: "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
- Reveal information.
- usage: "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
- 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
- Deliver a lecture or talk.
- usage: "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard"
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