talk down
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~ belittle through talk
talk out of
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~ persuade someone not to do something
talk about
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~ discuss or mention; "They spoke of many things"
talk
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~ reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details"
talk shop
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~ discuss matters that are related to work; "As soon as they met, the linguists started to talk shop"
talk
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~ use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
talk
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~ deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
talk over
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~ speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget"
talk of
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~ discuss or mention; "They spoke of many things"
talk
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~ express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
talk down
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~ direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio; "the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill"
talk
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~ divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
talk into
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~ persuade somebody to do something
talk about
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~ to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
tally
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~ determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
tally
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~ gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
tally
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~ be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
tame
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~ make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
tame
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~ correct by punishment or discipline