Inform and Speak

Inform

Inform verb - To give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities.

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Speak and inform are semantically related in communicate topic. In some cases you can use "Speak" instead a verb "Inform", when it comes to topics like make known.

Nearby Words: information, informal, informed, informer, informative

Speak

Speak verb - To express (a thought or emotion) in words.

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Antonyms for Speak

Inform and speak are semantically related in communicate topic. Sometimes you can use "Inform" instead a verb "Speak", if it concerns topics such as make known.

Nearby Words: speaker, speaking

Common collocations

people	inform people	speak people
time	inform time	speak time

Both words in one sentence

In Her Alibi, the Phil tries to speak to the Romanian murder suspect in her native language, only for her to inform him that he said his mother was an octopus.

Source: My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Yet... he gets all the blame in the end since he didn't just speak out, try to get out stealthfully, and when the King confronts him... he didn't even inform him of what happened.

Source: Western Animation / Sym-Bionic Titan
A henchman pretending to be a foreman also angrily starts to chew out Otto after that guy shoots Walsh, only for one of the "cop" henchmen to inform him that Otto doesn't speak English.

Source: Film / Die Hard with a Vengeance