reads

• alerts
• announces
• anticipates
• apprehends
• augurs
• bodes
• browses
• calls
• cautions
• comprehends
• deciphers
• declares
• devours
• divines
• forbodes
• forebodes
• forecasts
• foreknows
• foresees
• foretells
• forewarns
• gets
• grasps
• heralds
• makes
• makes out
• perceives
• peruses
• portends
• predicts
• presages
• proclaims
• prognosticates
• promises
• proofreads
• prophesies
• rereads
• reviews
• scans
• sees
• skims
• speed-reads
• studies
• turns over
• understands
• vaticinates
• warns

• describes
• narrates
• recites
• recounts
• relates
• reports
• tells

• 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.

• She always reads a chapter before bed.
• He reads the newspaper every morning at breakfast.
• The software reads data from the file automatically.
• My little brother reads surprisingly well for his age.
• The sign clearly reads "Do Not Enter."

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