Express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation.

synonyms: animadvert, opine, sound off, speak up.

Roget 525: make manifest, render manifest etc. adj.; bring forth, bring forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express; represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up; expose; produce; hold up to view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one, one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of; unfurl the flag; proclaim etc. (publish) 531.    indicate etc. (direct attention to) 457; disclose etc. 529; elicit etc. 480.1. be manifest etc. adj.; appear etc. (be visible) 446; transpire etc. (be disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face, rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale etc. (intelligible) 518.    ... show more

Roget 529: disclose, discover, dismask^†; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.    divulge, reveal, break; squeal [Coll.], tattle [Coll.], sing [Coll.], rat [Coll.], snitch [Coll.]; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell etc. (inform) 527; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out etc. (make manifest) 525; make public etc. 531; unriddle etc. (find out) 480.1; split.    acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind [Fr.]; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's evidence, Queen's evidence; acknowledge the corn [U.S.].    raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive^†, unbeguile^†; disabuse, set right, correct, open the eyes of; d_esillusionner.    be disclosed &c.; transpire, come to light; come in sight etc. (be visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out, leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover itself &c.; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.    ... show more

Roget 703: be artless etc. adj.; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at^†; think aloud; speak out, speak one's mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade.   

Dutch: opiniëren, van mening zijn