See also: Tirade

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From French tirade (monologue, speech, tirade).

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tirade (plural tirades)

  1. A long, angry or violent speech.
    Synonyms: diatribe; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      [] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
  2. A section of verse concerning a single theme.
    Synonym: laisse

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tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)

  1. To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
    • 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise[1]:
      Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead []

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French

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Etymology

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From tirer (to shoot) +‎ -ade.

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tirade f (plural tirades)

  1. tirade

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Verb

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tirade

  1. second-person plural imperative of tirar