tirade

(tī'rād', tī-rād')
n.
A long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.

[French, from Old French, act of firing, from tirer, to draw out, endure, probably back-formation from martirant, present participle of martirer, to torture (influenced by mar, to one's misfortune,tiranz, executioner, tyrant), from martir, martyr, from Late Latin martyr. See martyr.]

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is normally pronounced tiy-rayd, with the stress on the second syllable, in British English, and tiy-rayd, with the stress on the first syllable, in American English.

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noun

A long, violent, or blustering speech, usually of censure or denunciation: diatribe, fulmination, harangue, jeremiad, philippic. See praise/blame.

n

Definition: abuse, outburst
Antonyms: calm, harmony, peace

(Fr.)

Term for an ornament (It. tirata) consisting of a scale-like passage passing between two notes in a melodic line; see examples 1 and 2, from Leopold Mozart's Versuch einer gründliche Violinschule (1756).

Ex.1

Ex.2

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IN BRIEF: A speech of violent denunciation.

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. — Peter McWilliams

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• Blame, Censure, Ridicule, and Contempt - tirade: prolonged outburst of verbal abuse

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - tirade, ordstrøm

Nederlands (Dutch)
tirade

Français (French)
n. - tirade

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tirade, Scheltrede, Wortschwall

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τα εξ αμάξης, εξάψαλμος, κατσάδα, σχοινοτενής παθιασμένος λόγος (κν. φιλιππικός)

Italiano (Italian)
tirata

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tirada (f), discurso longo e veemente (m)

Русский (Russian)
тирада

Español (Spanish)
n. - diatriba, perorata

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - tirad, harang, ordflöde

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
长篇大论, 激烈的演说, 长篇的演说

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 長篇大論, 激烈的演說, 長篇的演說

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 장광설, 격론, 긴 공격 연설

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 長い攻撃演説, 長広舌, 激論

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) خطبه مسهبه عنيفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נאום חוצב להבות-אש, נאום-ביקורת חריף, תוכחה, דברי גינוי ארוכים ונמרצים‬

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