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GIVE VOICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does give voice mean?
• GIVE VOICE (verb)
The verb GIVE VOICE has 1 sense:
1. put into words or an expression
Familiarity information: GIVE VOICE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put into words or an expression
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word
Context example:
He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees
Hypernyms (to "give voice" is one way to...):
evince; express; show (give expression to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give voice"):
ask (direct or put; seek an answer to)
lexicalise; lexicalize (make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language)
dogmatise; dogmatize (state as a dogma)
formularise; formularize (express as a formula)
cast; couch; frame; put; redact (formulate in a particular style or language)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
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