Englishdeclaim
verb
1 he spoke like a preacher declaiming from the pulpit:
make a speech, give an address, give a talk, give a lecture, make an oration, deliver a sermon, give a sermon;
speak, hold forth, orate, pronounce, preach, lecture, sermonize, moralize;
informal sound off, mouth off, spiel, spout, speechify, preachify, jaw;
rare perorate.
2 they loved to hear him declaim poetry:
recite, say aloud, read aloud, read out loud, read out;
quote, deliver, render;
informal spout;
rare bespout.
3 he declaimed against the evils of society:
speak out, protest strongly, make a protest, make a stand, rail, inveigh, fulminate, rage, thunder;
rant about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, express disapproval of;
condemn, criticize, castigate, attack, decry, disparage;
informal mouth off about, kick up a stink about, go on about;
rare vociferate.