"declaim" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪˈkleɪm/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-declaim.wav [Southern-England] Forms: declaims [present, singular, third-person], declaiming [participle, present], declaimed [participle, past], declaimed [past]
Etymology: From Middle French declamer, from Latin dēclāmō. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kelh₁-}}, {{der|en|frm|declamer}} Middle French declamer, {{der|en|la|dēclāmō}} Latin dēclāmō Head templates: {{en-verb}} declaim (third-person singular simple present declaims, present participle declaiming, simple past and past participle declaimed)
  1. To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech. Translations (to object vociferously): 慷慨陈词 (Chinese Mandarin), protestoida (Finnish), declamar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-declaim-en-verb-V0sM5DHu Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 22 38 40 Disambiguation of 'to object vociferously': 67 14 19
  2. To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. Translations (to recite in theatrical way): декламирам (deklamiram) (Bulgarian), рецитирам (recitiram) (Bulgarian), declameren (Dutch), deklamoida (Finnish), déclamer (French), scander (French), réciter (French), 詠唱する (Japanese), 읊다 (eupda) (Korean), deklamować [imperfective] (Polish), zadeklamować [perfective] (Polish), деклами́ровать (deklamírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), declamar (Spanish), deklamera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-declaim-en-verb-sN8liFXU Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 22 38 40 Disambiguation of 'to recite in theatrical way': 4 69 27
  3. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking. Translations (to recite as rhetorical exercise): deklamoida (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-declaim-en-verb-u2oWCqxg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 28 43 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 22 38 40 Disambiguation of 'to recite as rhetorical exercise': 0 40 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: declaimer, declamation

Inflected forms

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