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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rant |
| Phonetic Transcription : rænt |
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Définition of ranted
Origin :- c.1600, "to be jovial and boisterous," also "to talk bombastically," from Dutch randten (earlier ranten) "talk foolishly, rave," of unknown origin (cf. German rantzen "to frolic, spring about"). Related: Ranted; ranting. Ranters "antinomian sect which arose in England c.1645" is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early Methodists. A 1700 slang dictionary has rantipole "a rude wild Boy or Girl" (also as a verb and adjective); to ride rantipole meant "The woman uppermost in the amorous congress" [Grose].
- verb yell, rave
- While she ranted, he brazenly began writing in visible ink once more.
- Extract from : « Droozle » by Frank Banta
- He foamed and ranted like he war acting a play in some theatre.
- Extract from : « Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier » by Frances Fuller Victor
- I just shocked Suggs and the rest into a panicky silence while I ranted.
- Extract from : « Cue for Quiet » by Thomas L. Sherred
- Connel fumed and ranted, threatened and cajoled, begged and pleaded, but it was no use.
- Extract from : « Sabotage in Space » by Carey Rockwell
- He ranted at Van Oudijck, he called down all the curses of heaven upon his head.
- Extract from : « The Hidden Force » by Louis Couperus
- "Ye jest coaxed me out in that ole buzz-wagon ter hev fun with me," ranted Welcome.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt's Race » by Stanley R. Matthews
- Yes, Colonel Campbell was his intimate, and ranted if he did not tarry a week with him at Abingdon on his journeys.
- Extract from : « The Crossing » by Winston Churchill
- All that night the wind howled up the mountainside and ranted through the forest so that Marion could not sleep.
- Extract from : « The Lookout Man » by B. M. Bower
- When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end.
- Extract from : « Return of the Native » by Thomas Hardy
- He gone (Sir) W. Pen ranted like a devil, saying that nothing but ignorance could do this.
- Extract from : « Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete » by Samuel Pepys
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