figurative. intransitive. To speak in the way of vehement threatening or reproof; to utter terrible menace or denunciation; to ‘fulminate’; to…

intransitive. To talk or declaim in an extravagant or hyperbolical manner; to use bombastic language; (esp. of an actor) to orate or speak in a…

intransitive. To use a pompous or affected style of speech; to declaim. Also transitive with it. Now rare.

transitive with it. Now rare.

intransitive. To speak or write in mock-tragic style; to use bombastic language.

transitive. To mouth the praises of (a person); to talk grandiloquently, to declaim.

(intransitive) to write fustian.

intransitive. To speak or act heroically; spec. (in early use) to speak in an elevated or bombastic style; cf. heroic, adj. 2c. Now rare.