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Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something.
‘I heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half’
‘As late as December, 1997 he was prating to MPs about the need for water in Scotland ‘to remain unambiguously in public ownership and to be clearly democratically accountable’.’
‘So, I'm not going to stop prating on and on about my favorite sport, but I won't do it nearly as much.’
‘How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me.’
‘Our culture is riven with ambiguity; we prate of our history but erase anything inconvenient from our collective hard-drive.’
‘It's even worse for them to prate about privacy when it's clearly just a PR move.’