hold forth

Strongest match

• recite

Strong matches

• attack
• bloviate
• declare
• decry
• denounce
• harangue
• inveigh
• lecture
• mouth
• orate
• perorate
• proclaim
• rail
• rant
• speak
• spiel
• spout

Weak matches

• blow hot air
• pile it on
• soapbox
• talk big

Strong matches

• argue
• chew
• comment
• commentate
• confab
• confer
• converse
• debate
• declaim
• descant
• develop
• dispute
• dissertate
• elaborate
• enlarge
• expand
• expatiate
• explain
• expound
• harangue
• lecture
• modulate
• orate
• perorate
• remark
• sermonize
• talk
• treat
• voice

Weak matches

• dilate upon
• dissert
• give a meeting

Strongest matches

• argue
• confer
• consider
• debate
• deliberate
• examine
• explain
• review
• take up

Strong matches

• altercate
• canvass
• confabulate
• contend
• contest
• converse
• descant
• dispute
• dissertate
• figure
• groupthink
• jaw
• moot
• sift
• ventilate
• weigh

Weak matches

• bounce off
• compare notes
• consult with
• discept
• discourse about
• dissert
• exchange views on
• get-together
• go into
• hash over
• kick about
• knock around
• put heads together
• reason about
• thrash out
• toss around

Strongest matches

• accost
• buttonhole

Strong matches

• address
• apostrophize
• declaim
• exhort
• orate
• perorate
• rant
• rave
• soapbox
• spiel
• spout
• stump

Weak matches

• chew out
• get on a soapbox
• go on about
• talk to
• yell at

Strongest matches

• expound
• teach

Strong matches

• address
• declaim
• deliver
• discourse
• harangue
• orate
• recite
• speak
• spiel
• spout
• talk

Weak matches

• get on a soapbox
• give a talk
• prelect

Strongest matches

• chronicle
• depict
• portray
• recite
• recount
• rehearse
• unfold

Strong matches

• characterize
• delineate
• descant
• disclose
• discourse
• enumerate
• expatiate
• paint
• picture
• proclaim
• relate
• repeat
• report
• reveal
• spin
• state
• tell

Weak matches

• give an account of
• make known
• set forth
• tell a story

Strong matches

• babble
• blab
• clack
• jabber
• jaw
• prate
• prattle
• rattle
• spiel
• spout
• tattle
• yak
• yakety-yak

Strongest matches

• chant
• communicate
• declaim
• deliver
• enumerate
• explain
• interpret
• mention
• perform
• recount
• reel off
• rehearse
• repeat
• reply
• speak
• utter

Strong matches

• address
• answer
• convey
• delineate
• describe
• detail
• discourse
• dramatize
• enact
• enlarge
• expatiate
• impart
• itemize
• parrot
• picture
• portray
• quote
• recapitulate
• relate
• render
• report
• retell
• soliloquize
• state
• tell

Weak matches

• account for
• give a report
• give an account
• give verbal account

Strongest matches

• argue
• plead
• talk

Strong matches

• declaim
• descant
• discourse
• harangue
• orate
• pitch
• recite
• sermonize
• spiel
• spout
• stump

Weak matches

• get across
• prelect

Strongest match

• gush

Strong matches

• boast
• brag
• chatter
• declaim
• expatiate
• harangue
• orate
• pontificate
• ramble
• rant
• sermonize
• speechify
• spellbind
• spiel
• vapor
• yell

Weak matches

• go on
• shoot off one's mouth

Strongest matches

• pitch
• speak

Strong matches

• accost
• discourse
• harangue
• induce
• influence
• lecture
• orate
• persuade
• sermonize
• spiel
• spout
• stump
• sway

Weak matches

• deliver a speech
• give a talk
• give speech
• prelect