Noun

• S: (n) advocate (advocate%1:18:00::), advocator (advocator%1:18:00::), proponent (proponent%1:18:00::), exponent (exponent%1:18:00::) (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
• S: (n) advocate (advocate%1:18:01::), counsel (counsel%1:18:00::), counselor (counselor%1:18:00::), counsellor (counsellor%1:18:00::), counselor-at-law (counselor-at-law%1:18:00::), pleader (pleader%1:18:00::) (a lawyer who pleads cases in court)

Verb

• S: (v) recommend (recommend%2:32:01::), urge (urge%2:32:03::), advocate (advocate%2:32:00::) (push for something) "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
• S: (v) preach (preach%2:32:00::), advocate (advocate%2:32:01::) (speak, plead, or argue in favor of) "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) urge (urge%2:32:00::), urge on (urge_on%2:32:00::), press (press%2:32:00::), exhort (exhort%2:32:00::) (force or impel in an indicated direction) "I urged him to finish his studies"
• S: (v) rede (rede%2:32:00::), advise (advise%2:32:00::), counsel (counsel%2:32:00::) (give advice to) "The teacher counsels troubled students"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud"
• S: (v) hash out (hash_out%2:32:00::), discuss (discuss%2:32:00::), talk over (talk_over%2:32:00::) (speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion) "We discussed our household budget"
• S: (v) talk of (talk_of%2:32:00::), talk about (talk_about%2:32:01::) (discuss or mention) "They spoke of many things"
• S: (v) talk (talk%2:32:00::), speak (speak%2:32:00::), utter (utter%2:32:00::), mouth (mouth%2:32:00::), verbalize (verbalize%2:32:00::), verbalise (verbalise%2:32:00::) (express in speech) "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
• S: (v) communicate (communicate%2:32:00::), intercommunicate (intercommunicate%2:32:00::) (transmit thoughts or feelings) "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
• S: (v) interact (interact%2:41:00::) (act together or towards others or with others) "He should interact more with his colleagues"
• S: (v) act (act%2:41:00::), move (move%2:41:00::) (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)) "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
• Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
• Somebody ----s to somebody