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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare" [syn: publicize, publicise, air, bare]
2: call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS" [syn: advertise, publicize, advertize, publicise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-cized; -cizing) Date: 1844 to bring to the attention of the public ; advertise

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) advertise; make publicly known.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(publicizes, publicizing, publicized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'publicise' If you publicize a fact or event, you make it widely known to the public. The author appeared on television to publicize her latest book... He never publicized his plans. ...his highly publicized trial this summer. VERB: V n, V n, V-ed

Moby Thesaurus

advance, advertise, announce, ballyhoo, bark, bill, boost, broadcast, bruit, build up, bulletin, circularize, cry, cry up, establish, extol, give a write-up, give publicity, headline, hype, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, press-agent, promote, promulgate, propagandize, puff, push, sell, spiel, tout, trumpet, write up