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blab
Overview of verb blab
The verb blab has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out -- (divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks")
2. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
Grep of noun blab
blabber
blabbermouth
blaberus
dolichos lablab
genus lablab
lablab
Antonyms of verb blab
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blab
2 senses of blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
=> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
=> tell
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb blab
1 of 2 senses of blab
Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb blab
2 senses of blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
=> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
'Cause To' of verb blab
Derived Forms of verb blab
1 of 2 senses of blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
RELATED TO>(noun) blabber#1
=> informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber
Domain of verb blab
Domain Terms of verb blab
Familiarity of verb blab
blab used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb blab
2 senses of blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb blab
2 senses of blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
=> blackwash
=> muckrake
=> blow
=> out
=> come out of the closet, out, come out
=> spring
=> betray, bewray
=> confide
=> leak
=> spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
=> reveal
Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
=> read
=> vocalize, vocalise, phonate
=> troll
=> begin
=> lip off, shoot one's mouth off
=> shout
=> whisper
=> peep
=> speak up
=> snap, snarl
=> enthuse
=> speak in tongues
=> swallow
=> verbalize, verbalise
=> whiff
=> talk of, talk about
=> blubber, blubber out
=> drone, drone on
=> bumble, stutter, stammer, falter
=> rasp
=> blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate
=> tone, inflect, modulate
=> deliver, present
=> generalize, generalise
=> chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> chatter
=> yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away
=> open up
=> snivel, whine
=> murmur
=> mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate
=> slur
=> bark
=> bay
=> rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave
=> hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate
=> cackle
=> babble
=> tone, chant, intone
=> gulp
=> sing
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb blab
Sense 1
spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
=> unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
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Sense 2
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
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Grep of verb blab
blab
blab out
blabber
Grep of adj blab
blabbermouthed
blabby
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