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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bitter, abusive denunciation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as diatribe
  2. n. A continued discourse or disputation.
  3. n. Specifically.
  4. n. A bitter and violent criticism; a strain of invective.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An abusive, bitter denunciation.
  2. n. A prolonged discourse.
  3. n. A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. thunderous verbal attack

Etymologies

  1. Latin diatriba, learned discourse, from Greek diatribē, pastime, lecture, from diatrībein, to consume, wear away : dia-, intensive pref.; see dia- + trībein, to rub; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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