Both Uses of
rant
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- Before the Prime Minister could ask why he was dripping all over the Axminster, Fudge had started ranting about a prison the Prime Minister had never heard of, a man named "Serious" Black, something that sounded like "Hogwarts," and a boy called Harry Potter, none of which made the remotest sense to the Prime Minister.†
Chpt 1 *
- Harry was so pleased to see it he felt he could even endure Filch's wheezy criticisms of his tardiness and rants about how his timekeeping would improve with the regular application of thumbscrews.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(rant) to complain or verbally attack in an excited rather than thoughtful way