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perorate

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Verb (intransitive)
 : 
per=o=rate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb perorate has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

peroratev. i. [See Peroration.].
     To make a peroration; to harangue.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

perorate, v.intr.
1 sum up and conclude a speech.
2 speak at length.

Etymology
L perorare perorat- (as PER-, orare speak)

THESAURUS

perorate

abort, cease, chatter, close, conclude, debate, declaim, demagogue, determine, drag out, draw out, elocute, end, extend, fill out, finish, finish up, harangue, hold forth, mouth, never finish, orate, out-herod Herod, pad, protract, rabble-rouse, rant, rave, read, recite, resolve, rodomontade, run out, scrap, scratch, soapbox, speak at length, spiel, spin out, spout, stop, stretch out, string out, terminate, tub-thump, wind up

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perorate

Diffuseness

VB be diffuse, run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate, launch out, branch out, rant, maunder, prose, harp upon, dwell on, insist upon, digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract, spin out, swell out, draw out, battologize.

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