Would you care to expound?
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Expound
//ɪkˈspaʊnd//
Synonyms for "expound" (69 found)
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Related words (34)
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3 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 21 languages.
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
4 entries- auslassen verb (make a statement)
- 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
1 entries- 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.
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.
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