rant

rant
v
1. orate, speechify, declaim, discourse, expound, expatiate, hold forth, perorate, go on, go on and on; speak, make an address, talk, take to the hustings, soapbox, Inf. stump; boast, brag, crow, trumpet, talk big, exaggerate, hyperbolize, tell a fish story, Sl. shoot off one's mouth or face; lecture, pontificate, preach, sermonize, prelect, hold court; harangue, deliver a diatribe or tirade or philippic, scold.
2. rave, rant and rave, fume, get all riled or worked up, go into a rage or hysterics, Inf. fly off, Inf. fly off the handle, Sl. blow one's stack or top, Sl. blow up, Sl. explode; vociferate.
n
3. bombast, turgidity, tumidity, flatulence, inflated language, Archaic. tympany; rhetoric, heroics, extravagance, pomposity, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence, sesquipedality, high-flown language; histrionics, theatrics, acting, act, show, display, exhibition; braggadocio, bravado, gasconade, fanfaronade, rodomontade, boasting, bragging, bluster, exaggeration.
4. harangue, tirade, diatribe, philippic, excoriation, vituperation, scolding, Inf. talking-to; lecture, sermon, prelection; oration, declamation, discourse, ex-patiation; speech, address, talk.

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