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Definition for read

verb as in look at and understand written word

Strongest matches

gather, interpret, know, learn, refer to, scan, see, study, translate, view

Strong matches

apprehend, comprehend, construe, decipher, discover, glance, perceive, peruse, skim, unravel

Weak matches

bury oneself in, dip into, flip through, go over, go through, leaf through, make out, pore over, scratch the surface

verb as in express, state

Strongest matches

announce, deliver, display, explain, hold, recite, say, show, speak, utter

Strong matches

affirm, assert, declaim, expound, indicate, mark, paraphrase, pronounce, record, register, render, restate

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Example Sentences

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He compares podcasting to reading a novel or listening to a song.

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He left Altadena for neighboring La Crescenta in third grade, when he transferred schools and got extra help with his reading disabilities.

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The dieselgate scandal first emerged in September 2015, when the US Environmental Protection Agency accused Volkswagen of installing software - known as "defeat devices" - on diesel cars to lower readings of the cars' nitrogen oxide emissions.

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Why go to the trouble of leaving the house to find something to read when you can stare at the phone in your hand?

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The consensus call is for a 33 reading, one point more than in September.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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