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
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
When he got a bit of sunshine, the old lazarone basked in it; he prated about his own affairs and past splendor, and all the lords, generals, and lord-lieutenants he had ever known.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray
People said that such an example of conjugal felicity was not often seen in those degenerate days, for even then they prated of the golden age of their grandfathers, lamenting their own decadence....
From Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
And still the news announcers prated of the responsibility of one Carl Vanderventer.
From Astounding Stories, August, 1931 by Various
