soliloquize
C2
verb
Freq #490437
Meanings
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1
verb
Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.
"Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]
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2
verb
To think to oneself.
Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.
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3
verb
talk to oneself
Etymology
From soliloquy + -ize.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
3
verb
· talk to oneself
monologuisemonologuize
Word family
Derived forms
soliloquizersoliloquizingly
Related forms
monologize