tirade
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 6
/taɪˈɹeɪd/(UK)
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/taɪˈɹeɪd/(UK) · /tɪˈɹeɪd/(UK) · /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/ · /tɪˈɹɑːd/
Definition of tirade
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A long, angry or violent speech.
“come out with a tirade”
“release a tirade”
“a lengthy tirade against one's rivals”
“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.”
““[…] 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.”
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noun
-
A long, angry or violent speech.
“come out with a tirade”
“release a tirade”
“a lengthy tirade against one's rivals”
“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.”
““[…] 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.”
- A section of verse concerning a single theme.
verb
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To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
“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 […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).
Words you can make from tirade
91 playable · top: AIRTED (7 pts)
Best play airted 7 points5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
30 words- ADIT 5 pts
- AIDE 5 pts
- ARID 5 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DART 5 pts
- DATE 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DIET 5 pts
- DIRE 5 pts
- DIRT 5 pts
- DITA 5 pts
- DITE 5 pts
- DRAT 5 pts
- EDIT 5 pts
- IDEA 5 pts
- IRED 5 pts
- RAID 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- RIDE 5 pts
- TIDE 5 pts
- TIED 5 pts
- TRAD 5 pts
- AIRT 4 pts
- ARIE 4 pts
- RATE 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- TARE 4 pts
- TEAR 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
16 wordsHooks
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