English > declaim: 2 senses > verb 1, communication| Meaning | recite in elocution. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonym | recite |
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| Entails | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
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| Narrower | elocute | declaim in an elocutionary manner |
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| perorate | deliver an oration in grandiloquent style |
| scan | read metrically |
| Broader | perform, execute, do | carry out or perform an action |
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| Spanish | declamar, recitar |
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| Catalan | declamar, recitar |
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| Nouns | declamation | recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric |
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