All commentate synonyms
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C c verb commentate
- chew β When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
- descant β A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- modulate β to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
- declaim β If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre.
- confab β A confab is an informal, private conversation.
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- sermonize β to deliver or compose a sermon; preach.
- debate β A debate is a discussion about a subject on which people have different views.
- treat β to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
- lecture β a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- dispute β to engage in argument or debate.
- orate β Make a speech, especially pompously or at length.
- converse β If you converse with someone, you talk to them. You can also say that two people converse.
- confer β When you confer with someone, you discuss something with them in order to make a decision. You can also say that two people confer.
- harangue β a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
- argue β If one person argues with another, they speak angrily to each other about something that they disagree about. You can also say that two people argue.
- perorate β to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- voice β the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- talk β to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- dissertate β to discuss a subject fully and learnedly; discourse.
- represent β to present again or anew.
- render β to cause to be or become; make: to render someone helpless.
- improvise β to compose and perform or deliver without previous preparation; extemporize: to improvise an acceptance speech.
- image β a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- limn β to represent in drawing or painting.
- perform β to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- decode β If you decode a message that has been written or spoken in a code, you change it into ordinary language.
- take β to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- paraphrase β a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- adapt β If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
- picture β a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- play β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- delineate β If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- gather β to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
- mimic β to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
- reenact β to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
- wisecrack β a smart or facetious remark.
- mouth off β Anatomy, Zoology. the opening through which an animal or human takes in food. the cavity containing the structures used in mastication. the structures enclosing or being within this cavity, considered as a whole.
- make out β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- pick up on β to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- take note β pay careful attention
- report β an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- review β a form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- pontificate β the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- discuss β to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- analyze β to separate (a thing, idea, etc.) into its parts so as to find out their nature, proportion, function, interrelationship, etc.
- sermonise β to deliver or compose a sermon; preach.
- criticise β criticize
- bring out β When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- pass on β to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.