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Say

verb
(past said; past part. said)
1.
Express in words.  Synonyms: state, tell.  "Tell me what is bothering you" , "State your opinion" , "State your name"
2.
Report or maintain.  Synonyms: allege, aver.  "He said it was too late to intervene in the war" , "The registrar says that I owe the school money"
3.
Express a supposition.  Synonym: suppose.  "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?"
4.
Have or contain a certain wording or form.  Synonym: read.  "What does the law say?"
5.
Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority.  Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell.  "She ordered him to do the shopping" , "The mother told the child to get dressed"
6.
Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way.  Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out.  "I cannot say 'zip wire'" , "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"
7.
Communicate or express nonverbally.  "Did his face say anything about how he felt?"
8.
Utter aloud.
9.
State as one's opinion or judgement; declare.
10.
Recite or repeat a fixed text.  "She said her 'Hail Mary'"
11.
Indicate.
noun
1.
The chance to speak.



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"Say" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I am afraid," say I, with a sour laugh, "that you have not kept much conversation for home use! I suppose you exhausted it all, this morning, ...
— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton
... but rather persistent one," she replied. "They say that it is in the power of certain people—to drive him out of ...
— Nobody's Man • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... was thus given little opportunity for wrongdoing. For he lived after this only two years, two months and twenty days in addition to his thirty-nine years, five months and twenty-five days. People compare this feature of Titus's career with the fullness of years of Augustus, and say that the latter would never have won affection if he had lived a shorter time, nor the former, if he had lived longer. Augustus, though at the outset he had shown himself rather harsh because of the wars and the political factions, ...
— Dio's Rome, Volume V., Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) • Cassius Dio
... that the death of Paul was a fortunate event for Austria, and for Europe, but he had in his conversation, a court mourning, that was really quite intolerable. It is to be hoped, that the progress of time will rid the world of the courtier spirit, the most insipid of all others, to say nothing more. ...
— Ten Years' Exile • Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne (Baroness) de Stael-Holstein
... told them rather firmly, "if this puzzle can be unwound, I'll be one of the happiest men on the planet. If I can do anything to help, just say the word." ...
— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith


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