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ORATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they orate ... he / she / it orates
Past simple: orated
Past participle: orated
-ing form: orating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk pompously
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "orate" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "orate"):
bloviate (orate verbosely and windily)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
orator (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
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