read sth out
— phrasal verb with read uk/riːd/us/riːd/verb read, read uk/red/us/red/
B2 to read something and say the words aloud so that other people can hear:
He read out the names of all the winners.
More examples
- He read her letter out to the rest of the family.
- Read out the numbers and I'll key them in.
- Read it out for us all to hear.
- He read out the sales figures in the meeting.
- It's sometimes helpful to read out what you've written.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- read sth over/through
- readable
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- skim
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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