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broadcast

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of broadcast

1 to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people
  • broadcast the information only to people who needed to know
Synonyms of broadcast

circulate, disseminate, propagate, spread
Words Related to broadcast

radiate, sprawl

diffuse, dispense, disperse, dissipate, scatter, sow

communicate, convey, impart, pass (on), transmit
Near Antonyms of broadcast

cloak, conceal, enshroud, hide, hold (in), mask, obscure, secrete, shroud, veil

contain, limit, restrict
2 to make known openly or publicly
  • please don't broadcast this news, as it's not being publicly announced yet
Synonyms of broadcast

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

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
Phrases Synonymous with broadcast

beat the drum (for or about), run with
Near Antonyms of broadcast

conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold

recall, recant, retract, revoke

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