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PERORATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliver an oration in grandiloquent style

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "perorate" is one way to...):

declaim; recite (recite in elocution)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

peroration (a flowery and highly rhetorical oration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "perorate" is one way to...):

conclude (bring to a close)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

peroration ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration)

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