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withspeak
withspeak
English
Verb
withspeak (third-person singular simple present withspeaks, present participle withspeaking, simple past withspoke, past participle withspoken)
- (transitive or intransitive) To contradict; speak against.
- 1984, Isaac Asimov, Science fiction magazine:
- "Aren't you going to say something?" he said. "Like 'I withspeak myself?' That's a nice example of Germanic compounding."
- 1984, Isaac Asimov, Science fiction magazine:
- To direct conversation or questions (to).
- 1957, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction:
- the only time frame in which he could withspeak to the Spirit Ring
- 1957, Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction: