prate
verb (used without object)
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
prated
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past participleof prate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof prate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
prateverb (used without object)to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
Example Sentences
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Americans' "coarse familiarity, untempered by any shadow of respect," Mrs. Trollope decided, might serve as an object lesson to all Europeans who prated about republican "democracy" from a safe distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes; he had worshipped at the shrine of the Beautiful; he had prated of the Renaissance.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
The word Interpreter is derived from Inter-prater, for one that prated betwixt two that spoke several languages.
From The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. Ordway
Time was, O Holy One!" he cried, with wagging headpiece, "when 'twas I who prated of prudence.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
She prated of a great-uncle who married a niece of Lord Campbell—a cousin underscored in her records as Laird of Barula—the grand Makemies, the high-stepping Gabies, and the learned Gobies.
From The ghosts of their ancestors by Weymer Jay Mills
