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declaim
declaim is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
- 2intransitive verb
To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
- 3transitive verb
To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
- 4transitive verb
To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
- 5verb
speak against in an impassioned manner
"he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society"
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- 6verb
recite in elocution
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