Speechify
41-ify — suffix (in verbs) also fy 1 to affect something in a particular way, or become something: to purify (=make or become pure) | to clarify the situation (=make it clear) 2 to fill someone with a particular feeling: They terrify me. (=fill me with… …
42declaim — verb 1) a preacher declaiming from the pulpit Syn: make a speech, give an address, give a lecture, deliver a sermon; speak, hold forth, orate, preach, lecture, sermonize, moralize; informal sound off, spout, speechify, preachify 2) …
43drone — 1. verb 1) a plane droned overhead Syn: hum, buzz, whirr, vibrate, murmur, rumble, purr 2) he droned on about right and wrong Syn: speak boringly, go on and on, talk at length; intone …
44hold forth — he was holding forth on the qualities of good wine Syn: speak at length, talk at length, go on, sound off; declaim, spout, pontificate, orate, preach, sermonize; informal speechify, drone on …
45speak — verb 1) she refused to speak about it Syn: talk, say anything/something; utter, state, declare, tell, voice, express, pronounce, articulate, enunciate, vocalize, verbalize 2) we spoke the other day Syn …
46spout — 1. verb 1) lava was spouting from the crater Syn: spurt, gush, spew, erupt, shoot, squirt, spray; disgorge, discharge, emit, belch forth 2) there he is, spouting off about religion, as usual Syn …
47descant — v 1. sing, warble, croon, trill, peal. 2. comment on, discourse, relate; elaborate, expatiate, dilate, amplify, dissertate, expand, enlarge, spell out; harp on, dwell on, hammer away at, beat into the ground, insist, yammer; digress, deviate,… …
48harangue — n 1. declamation, stump speech, cice ronianism; oration, speech, talk, address, recitation; hard sell, Inf. spiel, appeal; bombast, rodomontade, bluster, Sl. big stink, hot air; effusion, expatiation. 2. lecture, sermon, preachment, homily,… …
49orate — v declaim, speak, perorate, proclaim, hold forth; make a speech, soapbox, make an address, prelect, lecture; sermonize, preach, eulogize; soliloquize, apostrophize; speechify, harangue, rant, rail, spout, Inf. sound off; mouth, talk big,… …
50perorate — v 1. speak at length, discourse, expatiate, descant; orate, lecture, preach, sermonize; elocutionize, Inf. elocute, harangue, rant; Inf. spout, Sl. run off at the mouth, drool, Inf. spiel; flourish, go on and on, out herod Herod; speechify, hold… …
