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Perorate vs Perforate - What's the difference?

perorate | perforate |

As verbs the difference between perorate and perforate

is that perorate is to speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue while perforate is to pierce; to penetrate.

As an adjective perforate is

(philately) perforated.

perorate

English

Verb

(perorat)
  • To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
  • To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech.
  • perforate

    English

    Verb

    (perforat)
  • to pierce; to penetrate
  • to make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line
  • Troponyms

    * drill, punch

    Derived terms

    * perforation * perforator

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (philately) perforated