broadcast

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of BROADCAST

to cause to be known over a considerable area or by many people <broadcast the information only to people who needed to know>

Synonyms broadcast, circulate, disseminate, propagate

Related Words radiate, sprawl; diffuse, dispense, disperse, dissipate, scatter, sow; communicate, convey, impart, pass (on), transmit

Near Antonyms cloak, conceal, enshroud, hide, hold (in), mask, obscure, secrete, shroud, veil; contain, limit, restrict

to make known openly or publicly <please don't broadcast this news, as it's not being publicly announced yet>

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

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