OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 3034

speak

/spiːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
disused: fablar • fabular • hablar
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the workin…
I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
charlar • conversar • hablar • platicar
To have a conversation.
It's been ages since we've spoken.
decir • mediar palabra
To utter.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
hablar
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.