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
He prated of tying together the ravelled strands of the confederacy.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
Her father prated of only one offense, her mother’s sin.
From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt
So had they prated Of things created, An hour before, in her Sunday-school.
From To Your Dog and To My Dog by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt
And with all that—and after all is said—there was something in me that warmed to her—perhaps the shadow of kinship—perhaps because of her utter ignorance of all she prated of so wisely.
From The Reckoning by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
