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DECLAIM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak against in an impassioned manner

Example:

he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society

Synonyms:

declaim; inveigh

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "declaim" is one way to...):

protest (utter words of protest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

declamation (vehement oratory)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Recite in elocution

Synonyms:

declaim; recite

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "declaim" is one way to...):

do; execute; perform (carry out or perform an action)

"Declaim" entails doing...:

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "declaim"):

elocute (declaim in an elocutionary manner)

perorate (deliver an oration in grandiloquent style)

scan (read metrically)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

declamation (recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric)

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