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Talked

Talk \Talk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked; p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t?lka to interpret, t?lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).]

  1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

    I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
    --Shak.

  2. To confer; to reason; to consult.

    Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.
    --Jer. xii. 1.

  3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]

    To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. ``The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.''
    --Addison.

    To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]

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talked

vb. (en-past of: talk)

Usage examples of "talked".

Elizabeth Zane remained silent all the way home, and when they arrived his parents sent Tommy to do his homework and talked on, in carefully lowered voices, till very late.

Tommy thought she talked more to Davey than she did to anyone else in the house.

Stella grew evasive about her teens, or what had brought her to the carnival where Johnny had found her, but she talked freely about the work she had done.

A day-long downpour effectively drenched any thought of an evening performance, and Lambeth canceled the show, growled, and talked gloomily of consulting a fortune-teller instead of the local weather bureau.

But in general, behind the scenes at Lambeth, most of the show people reacted in much the same manner as Lambeth himself: Sons, brothers, and fathers would be coming home, new tires were once again a remote possibility, and the concessionaires on the midway talked with hope about the end of sugar rationing.

Closed away in their tiny compartment, they talked during the long night runs when they should have been sleeping.

Mario gave Stella a box of candy he had picked up somewhere, which she promptly passed around, and they sat eating crackers and cheese from little jars while they talked for a while about the performance and the long overnight run to Denver.

They interviewed Lucia, and even talked to Joe, about the Santelli tradition, and photographed Bart everywhere: on the pedestal with Mario, climbing the ladder, falling into the net.

I should have, probably--we talked, and I found this strange, tawny-haired woman to have the most uncommon good sense.

The twins and I talked it over and decided to change form and fly across rather than hail one of those leaky tubs.

We sat and talked for most of the rest of the afternoon, and then Polgara returned.

From what Beldin told me the last time we talked, that ecstasy is still on him.

We talked a bit as we walked through the muddy streets to the eastern edge of town.

Bull-neck and I talked until quite late that evening, which gave Pol the opportunity to break a few hearts.

We talked about many things, and I think I managed to persuade Daran that what he had to do was necessary and important.