publicize

publicize

verb

Definition of PUBLICIZE

1

to provide publicity for <the movie studios widely publicized their summer blockbusters>

Synonyms ballyhoo, hype, pitch, plug, promote, talk up, tout

Related Words advertise, bark, merchandise (also merchandize), sell; push; acclaim, hail, laud, praise; endorse (also indorse), plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for); recommend, review; announce, broadcast, publish

Phrases beat the drum (for)

2

to make known openly or publicly <the city hasn't done a good job of publicizing the new regulations for its recycling operation>

Synonyms advertise, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet

Related Words bark, call (off or out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimate

Near Antonyms conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revoke