Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to declaim
Participle: declaimed
Gerund: declaiming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | declaim |
| you | declaim |
| he;she;it | declaims |
| we | declaim |
| you | declaim |
| they | declaim |
Perfect
| I | have declaimed |
| you | have declaimed |
| he;she;it | has declaimed |
| we | have declaimed |
| you | have declaimed |
| they | have declaimed |
Past
| I | declaimed |
| you | declaimed |
| he;she;it | declaimed |
| we | declaimed |
| you | declaimed |
| they | declaimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had declaimed |
| you | had declaimed |
| he;she;it | had declaimed |
| we | had declaimed |
| you | had declaimed |
| they | had declaimed |
Future
| I | will declaim |
| you | will declaim |
| he;she;it | will declaim |
| we | will declaim |
| you | will declaim |
| they | will declaim |
Future Perfect
| I | will have declaimed |
| you | will have declaimed |
| he;she;it | will have declaimed |
| we | will have declaimed |
| you | will have declaimed |
| they | will have declaimed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | declaim |
| you | declaim |
| he;she;it | declaim |
| we | declaim |
| you | declaim |
| they | declaim |
Perfect
| I | have declaimed |
| you | have declaimed |
| he;she;it | have declaimed |
| we | have declaimed |
| you | have declaimed |
| they | have declaimed |
Imperfect
| I | declaimed |
| you | declaimed |
| he;she;it | declaimed |
| we | declaimed |
| you | declaimed |
| they | declaimed |
Pluperfect
| I | had declaimed |
| you | had declaimed |
| he;she;it | had declaimed |
| we | had declaimed |
| you | had declaimed |
| they | had declaimed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would declaim |
| you | would declaim |
| he;she;it | would declaim |
| we | would declaim |
| you | would declaim |
| they | would declaim |
Perfect
| I | would have declaimed |
| you | would have declaimed |
| he;she;it | would have declaimed |
| we | would have declaimed |
| you | would have declaimed |
| they | would have declaimed |
Imperative
| you | declaim |
| we | Let's declaim |
| you | declaim |
Verbs conjugated like 'declaim'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'declaim'
reclaim,
acclaim,
beclam,
claim,
decharm,
declamp,
declare,
declass,
declaw,
declimb,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1385, from L.
declamare, from
de- intens. prefix +
clamare "to cry, shout" (see claim). At first in Eng. spelled
declame, but altered under infl. of
claim.
2. From Middle French declamer, from Latin dēclāmō. See: Latin '
dēclāmō'.
Verbs referencing "declaim"
Finnish with old forms
deklamoida.
Sample Sentences
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Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. [1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:]
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The students declaim twice a week.
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Their love had gone too far on occasion: praying to those pictures and then sliding to worship those drawings as pagans had once worshiped idols. Many priests declaimed the practice and warned that the people were violating God's first commandment against false idols. [1994, Lawrence Murray, Lonely is the Pioneer:]
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Declaiming such practices, Baskaran writes: 'The flow of the film would not be affected in the least if song sequences were excised, wholly or partly' [1996, Lalitha Gopalan, “Indian Cinema”, in Jill Nelmes, editor, An Introduction to Film Studies:]
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American leaders found it difficult to attack Soviet injustices and demand equality and the rule of law worldwide when African Americans endured systematic segregation throughout much of the nation. Facing Soviet propaganda that declaimed such hypocrisy, and fearful it would alter the status of the Cold War enabling the Soviets to lure African, Asian, and Middle Eastern states into their orbit […] [2014, Cameron D. Lippard, Charles A. Gallagher, editors, Race and Racism in the United States:]
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He now declaimed having intended any thing disrespectful to the Senate in the expression he had used. [1835 February 20, “Mr. Adams and the French”, in North River Times:]
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Unless these conditions are fulfilled we declaim responsibility. [1928 September, “The Cooperation of the Pharmacist and the Wholesale Druggist (advertisement)”, in Druggist's Circular, page 77:]
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Of course, a small minority has always declaimed any religious affiliation, and some agnostics have been prominent figures in American public life. [2009, Christopher McKnight Nichols, “The "New" No-Religionists”, in Culture:]
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[2018 July 18, “Ekiti Poll: PDP declaims involvement in votes buying”, in CEOAfrica:]