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How to pronounce declaim in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms recite
Type of do, execute, perform
Has types scan, perorate, elocute
Derivation declamation
Type Words
Synonyms inveigh
Type of protest
Derivation declamation


he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society.

Examples of declaim

declaim
Perhaps the temptation to declaim on such a grand stage is too much to resist.
From the time.com
Famously, and perhaps blessedly, Frost never had the chance to declaim them.
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People move and declaim with the theatricality of Bollywood movies.
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Good drama doesn't simply repeat cliches and declaim the obvious.
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At evening's end, all will rise, and together declaim the concluding lines of The Tay Bridge Disaster.
From the guardian.co.uk
Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia.
From the time.com
As a child, writers and actors came to our home in the genteel suburb of Terenure to talk and declaim.
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Then he puts muscles on his vocal cords by forcing him to declaim speeches over the roar of the ocean.
From the economist.com
Treacherously, he recommended to Plato that Dion shouldn't declaim publicly against the Syracusan regime.
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More examples
  • Recite in elocution
  • Speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society"
  • Declamation (also known as Oratorical Declamation or Oratorical Interpretation, commonly abbreviated to "dec") is a public speaking event of the National Catholic Forensic League. ...
  • To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech; To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way