Expound

/ɪkˈspaʊnd/

Synonyms for "expound" (97 found)

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Closest matches (20)

Strong matches (29)

Related words (48)

expositexpressgive reason forgive the meaningharanguehold forthilluminateillustrateinterpretlecturemake clearmake plainmoralizepoint a moralpopularizepreachpresentrantrationalizeread a lesson
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sermonizeshed light uponshowshow howshow the waysimplifysolvespell outstatethrow light uponunfoldunlockunravel
Noun(5 words)
lecture onlypontificatepropoundingsoapboxesstate code

Related word relations

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16 entries

More specific

6 entries
close readingdetailed explanationpolicy positionstepwise clarificationtextual analysistheoretical justification

Collocations

5 entries

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Translations

43 translations across 21 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • обяснявам verb (explain or discuss at length)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 闡明 /阐明 verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • 闡述 /阐述 verb (explain or discuss at length)

Czech

3 entries
  • vykládat verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • vyložit verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • vysvětlit verb (explain or discuss at length)

Dutch

1 entries
  • uiteenzetten verb (explain or discuss at length)

Finnish

1 entries
  • selittää verb (explain or discuss at length)

French

2 entries
  • expliciter verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • préciser verb (explain or discuss at length)

Georgian

1 entries
  • განავრცობს verb (explain or discuss at length)

German

3 entries
  • darlegen verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • erklären verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • erläutern verb (explain or discuss at length)

Gothic

1 entries
  • 𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 verb (explain or discuss at length)

Hindi

4 entries
  • प्रतिपादन करना verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • प्रतिपादित करना verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • बखान करना verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • बखानना verb (explain or discuss at length)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • kifejt verb (explain or discuss at length)

Ido

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  • explikar verb (explain or discuss at length)

Italian

2 entries
  • illustrare verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • spiegare verb (explain or discuss at length)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 詳説する verb (explain or discuss at length)

Māori

1 entries
  • whakapūaho verb (explain or discuss at length)

Persian

1 entries
  • تفصیل دادن verb (explain or discuss at length)

Russian

4 entries
  • излага́ть verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • изложи́ть verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • разъясни́ть verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • разъясня́ть verb (explain or discuss at length)

Scots

1 entries
  • expoond verb (explain or discuss at length)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • izložiti verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • objasniti verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • rastumačiti verb (explain or discuss at length)

Spanish

3 entries
  • disertar verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • explayar verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • exponer verb (explain or discuss at length)

Turkish

3 entries
  • açımlamak verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • teşrih etmek verb (explain or discuss at length)
  • şerh etmek verb (explain or discuss at length)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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Would you care to expound?

Source: tatoeba (5738474)

And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them.

Source: tatoeba (7882227)

I awoke, and then fell asleep again, and dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew up upon one stalk, full and very fair. Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stalk: And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.

Source: tatoeba (7882910)

Some intellectuals venture to say that sci-fi films and literature are fuzzily impacts of Orientalism. For some Westerners, looking at a sci-fi film or reading a sci-fi book resembles an adventure into the Orient. For the Westerner, it is the Self versus the Other. James Alexander Brown wrote his dissertation "American Science Fiction Cinema, Orientalism, Self & Other" to expound on just that sentimentality in the West.

Source: tatoeba (10726800)

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