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harangue

Syllables: ha·rangue/həˈɹæŋ//həˈɹeɪ̯ŋ/

harangue noun: an impassioned, disputatious public speech.

Noun

harangue (plural harangues)

  1. An impassioned, disputatious public speech.
  2. A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written.
    • She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.
    • The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late.

Verb

harangue (third-person singular simple present harangues, present participle haranguing, simple past and past participle harangued)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
    • The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.
    • He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan...
    Synonyms:
    admonish, berate, lecture
  2. (transitive) To deliver a public address to.
    • He is part of the landscape now—out there every Saturday night, haranguing the crowd round the soldiers’ monument, with a bronze Civil War infantryman standing guard over his head to assure him a hearing or his constitutional rights or something.1920 November 20, James H. Collins, “When Soap Box Meets Soap Box”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 193, number 21, page 19
    • It's a tradition that when you harangue the multitudes, you stand on a soapbox.1993 July 7, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

harangue meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

harangue in Tamil

பேச்சு, நீள் உரை, நீள்தாக்குரை

harangue in Urdu

لتاڑ, مخالفانہ تقریر, ولولہ انگیز تقریر, ولولہ انگیز تقریر کرنا, پرجوش خطبہ دینا

harangue in Bengali

দীর্ঘ

harangue in Malayalam

ശബ്ദഘോഷത്തോടുകൂടിയ ദീർഘഭാഷണം
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harangue in Kannada
ಆರ್ಭಟದ ಭಾಷಣ ಮಾಡು, ಉದ್ರೇಕದ ಮಾತಾಡು

Examples of harangue in a sentence

  • Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.
  • A group of young Jewish kids are being harangued by a group of young men.
  • Or perhaps Hull merely rewrote Kearney's incoherent harangues, polishing their language, heightening their ferocity, after they were delivered?

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Synonyms of harangue

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Forms of harangue

Noun
pluralharangues
Verb
third-person singular presentharangues
present participleharanguing
past participleharangued
pastharangued

Origin of harangue

From Middle English arang and French harangue, from Old Italian aringa (modern Italian arringa) from aringare (“speak in public”) (modern Italian arringare), from aringo (“public assembly”), from Gothic *𐌷𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃 (*hriggs) or a compound containing it, akin to Old High German hring (“ring”) (whence German Ring). Doublet of range, rank, ring, and rink.

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Words that rhyme with harangue

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Questions about harangue

What does harangue mean?
Harangue means an impassioned, disputatious public speech.
What is harangue in Tamil?
Harangue in Tamil is பேச்சு, நீள் உரை, நீள்தாக்குரை. See Harangue meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is harangue?
Harangue can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce harangue?
Harangue is pronounced /həˈɹæŋ/.
What is the plural of harangue?
The plural of harangue is harangues.

Words near harangue in the dictionary

  1. Haran
  2. harang
  3. haranged
  4. haranging
  5. harangs
  6. harangue
  7. harangued
  8. harangueful
  9. haranguer
  10. haranguers
  11. harangues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harangue (page history and authors); harangue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); harangue (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); harangue (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); harangue (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); harangue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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