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oratingverbpresent participle of orate to talk as if giving an important and formal speechgiven the opportunity, many politicians will orate at considerable length on just about any subject declaiming, discoursing, haranguing, mouthing (off), perorating ranting, ravingbloviating, blowinglecturing, preaching, sermonizingadvertising, announcing, broadcasting, declaring, proclaiming, pronouncingspeaking, speechifying, talking to give a formal often extended talk on a subjectthe respected anthropologist is expected to orate about her latest research findings before a packed auditorium declaiming, descanting, discoursing, expatiating, haranguing, lecturing, speaking, talking reciting, soliloquizingdisserting, expounding, pontificating, sermonizingmouthing, spoutingfilibustering holding forth, taking the floor |