read

• affirm
• alert
• announce
• anticipate
• apprehend
• assert
• augur
• bode
• browse
• bury oneself in
• call
• caution
• comprehend
• construe
• decipher
• declaim
• declare
• deliver
• devour
• dip into
• discover
• display
• divine
• explain
• expound
• flip through
• forbode
• forebode
• forecast
• foreknow
• foresee
• foretell
• forewarn
• gather
• get
• glance
• go over
• go through
• grasp
• herald
• hold
• indicate
• interpret
• know
• leaf through
• learn
• make
• make out
• mark
• paraphrase
• perceive
• peruse
• pore over
• portend
• predict
• presage
• proclaim
• prognosticate
• promise
• pronounce
• proofread
• prophesy
• recite
• record
• refer to
• register
• render
• reread
• restate
• review
• say
• scan
• scratch the surface
• see
• show
• skim
• speak
• speed-read
• study
• translate
• turn over
• understand
• unravel
• utter
• vaticinate
• view
• warn

• abandon
• be quiet
• conceal
• deny
• describe
• forget
• hide
• ignore
• lose
• misinterpret
• miss
• misunderstand
• narrate
• neglect
• overlook
• recite
• recount
• relate
• report
• tell
• withhold
• write

• noun
  1. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  2. (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
  3. A person's interpretation or impression of something.
  4. An instance of reading.
• verb
  1. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  2. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
  3. To read work(s) written by (a named author).
  4. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
  5. To consist of certain text.
  6. Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  7. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
  8. (usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
  9. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  10. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
  11. (except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  12. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  13. To think, believe; to consider (that).
  14. To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  15. To tell; to declare; to recite.
  16. To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  17. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
  18. To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  19. To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
  20. To read work(s) written by (a named author).
  21. To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc. from.
  22. To consist of certain text.
  23. Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  24. To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
  25. (usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
  26. To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  27. To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
  28. (except Scotland) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  29. To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  30. To think, believe; to consider (that).
  31. To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  32. To tell; to declare; to recite.
  33. To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  34. To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.

• I always read a few pages before going to bed.
• She read the entire novel in one night.
• He loves to read books about ancient history.
• We read the instructions carefully before assembling the furniture.
• The teacher asked the students to read aloud from the textbook.

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