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talk - verb

  1. To engage in spoken exchange: chat, confabulate, converse, discourse, speak. Informal confab, visit. See words.
  2. To direct speech to: address, speak. See words.
  3. To express oneself in speech: speak, verbalize, vocalize. See words.
  4. To put into words: articulate, communicate, convey, declare, express, say, state, tell, utter, vent, verbalize, vocalize, voice. See words.
  5. To engage in or spread gossip: blab, gossip, noise, rumor, tattle, tittle-tattle, whisper. See words.
  6. To meet and exchange views to reach a decision: advise, confer, consult, deliberate, parley. Informal powwow. See collect. meet. words.
  7. To give incriminating information about others, especially to the authorities: inform, tattle, tip(off). Informal fink. Slang rat, sing, snitch, squeal, stool. See knowledge. law.

talk back - phrasal verb

  1. To utter an impertinent rejoinder: talk up. Informal sass, sauce. See resist. words.

talk down - phrasal verb

  1. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant: belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, run down, slight. See attack. show.

talk into - phrasal verb

  1. To succeed in causing (a person) to act in a certain way: argue into, bring, bring around or round, convince, get, induce, persuade, prevail on or upon, sell(on). See persuasion.

talk over - phrasal verb

  1. To speak together and exchange ideas and opinions about: bandy(about), discuss, moot, thrash out or over, thresh out or over, toss around. Informal hash(over), kick around, knock about or around. Slang rap. See words.

talk up - phrasal verb

  1. To increase or seek to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity: ballyhoo, boost, build up, enhance, promote, publicize, puff, tout. Informal plug. Slang hype. See knowledge.
  2. To make known vigorously the positive features of (a product): advertise, ballyhoo, build up, cry(up), popularize, promote, publicize. Informal pitch, plug. Slang push. See knowledge.
  3. To utter an impertinent rejoinder: talk back. Informal sass, sauce. See resist. words.

talk - noun

  1. Spoken exchange: chat, colloquy, confabulation, conversation, converse, dialogue, discourse, speech. Informal confab. Slang jaw. See words.
  2. The faculty, act, or product of speaking: discourse, speech, utterance, verbalization, vocalization. See words.
  3. A usually formal oral communication to an audience: address, allocution, declamation, lecture, oration, prelection, speech. See words.
  4. The act or process of dealing with another to reach an agreement. negotiation, parley. See words.