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verb (used without object)

to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.

verb (used with object)

to utter or declaim in a ranting manner.

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noun

ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.

a ranting utterance.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Dutch ranten (obsolete) to talk foolishly

Related forms

rant·er, noun

rant·ing·ly, adverb

out·rant, verb (used with object)

un·rant·ing, adjective

Synonyms
3. bombast, extravagance.

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One late night, he took his son on a rambling drive to nowhere, ranting to the boy about his mother.

Ranting is not his style, rather an absorption with every aspect of the production to the exclusion of all other considerations.

Anyway, religious ranting is stupid, especially towards a science program.

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One late night, he took his son on a rambling drive to nowhere, ranting to the boy about his mother.

Ranting is not his style, rather an absorption with every aspect of the production to the exclusion of all other considerations.

Anyway, religious ranting is stupid, especially towards a science program.

Sniffing, sobbing, wiling and ranting are socially acceptable expressions in some cultures.

Let's not sweep it under the carpet while ranting over semantics of crime.

Barnes is ranting here about celebrity chefs, but he might as well be talking about cookbook writers in general.

Unless you address that inverted pyramid all you are doing is ranting.

Blindly i became a truther ranting mad and out for justice, i became a patriot searching for the truth.

Regardless, it is your paranoid ranting that clearly paints you as an anti-science fanatic.

Apartheid is dead and gone and no amount of ranting on this forum will resurrect it.

You, for instance, seem to derive some masochistic pleasure from reading a blog that leaves you ranting and raving.

Senseless ranting by the uninformed must be treated as a psychological issue and otherwise ignored.

Babbage is not ranting about needless, beautiful precision.

One would be able to form a more informed opinion, rather than ranting about what they wish to derive from the study.

Never heard a smoker ranting about a non-smoking one.

He apologised, but still claimed that his ranting had strong foundations.

So much effort spent at discediting and mocking and ranting against them.

Your comment tho packs in a fair bit of ranting into a small space.

There's little good to be said about this phone but we'll try to break it down before ranting about its copious flaws.

But the nurse said my patient had been ranting and uncooperative with blood draws and blood-pressure checks.

I'd rather this thread not turn into a ranting back in forth with blanket statements about socialism and right-wingers.

Most of the e-mails appear to be the work of frustrated individuals, ranting into the ether, scientists say.

The cold war was under way, so someone was always ranting about communism, pro or con.

Savitt takes such predictable ranting from a nonstudent of jurisprudence in stride.

Distrust of the media was laid down throughout the rally by video montages of ranting broadcast bobble heads.

Eliminating the anonymity will definitely squelch much of the hateful ranting.

It is simplistic to believe that all our information comes from deliberate tuning in to extremists' ranting.

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World English Dictionary

rant (rænt)

—vb
1.	to utter (something) in loud, violent, or bombastic tones
2.	chiefly (Scot) (intr) to make merry; frolic

—n
3.	loud, declamatory, or extravagant speech; bombast
4.	chiefly (Scot) a wild revel
5.	(Scot) an energetic dance or its tune

[C16: from Dutch ranten to rave; related to German ranzen to gambol]

'ranter

—n

'ranting

—*adj*, —n

'rantingly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

rant

1598, from Du. randten "talk foolishly, rave," of unknown origin (cf. Ger. rantzen "to frolic, spring about"). The noun is first attested 1649, from the verb. Ranters "antinomian sect which arose in England c.1645" is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early Methodists. A 1700 slang dictionary has rantipole

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