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rant verb [ rant ]

• speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way.
• "she was still ranting on about the unfairness of it all"
Similar: hold forth, go on and on, deliver a tirade, rant and rave, fulminate, sound off, spout, pontificate, trumpet, bluster, declaim, shout, yell, roar, bellow, mouth off, vociferate,

rant noun

• a spell of ranting; a tirade.
• "his rants against organized religion"
Similar: tirade, harangue, diatribe, broadside, verbal onslaught, philippic,
Origin: late 16th century (in the sense ‘behave boisterously’): from Dutch ranten ‘talk nonsense, rave’.

rant and rave

• shout and complain angrily and at length.
"stop ranting and raving for a minute and start being honest with yourself"



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