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BLOVIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bloviate mean?
• BLOVIATE (verb)
The verb BLOVIATE has 1 sense:
1. orate verbosely and windily
Familiarity information: BLOVIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orate verbosely and windily
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "bloviate" is one way to...):
orate (talk pompously)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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