Expound
[ɪk'spaʊnd;ek-] or [ɪk'spaʊnd]
Definition
(v. t.) To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
(v. t.) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Explain, unfold, interpret, elucidate, clear up, lay open, make plain.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXPLAIN]
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Definition
v.t. to expose or lay open the meaning of: to explain: to interpret: to explain in a certain way.—n. Expound′er one who expounds: an interpreter.
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Examples
- Let our buxom chaplain stand forth, and expound to this reverend father the texts which concern this matter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Each side had to train men in ability to study and expound the records which were relied upon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Listen, godmother; I am going to expound. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She dates it from the time when Nietzsche, under the guise of Wagnerian propaganda, began to expound himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Light a cigar and let me expound. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- New science was expounded so as to deny the reality of all qualities in real, or objective, existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But my steward has expounded to you the cause of my seeming discourtesy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Go on expounding, Sophronia. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The texts were there still, and so was his own facility in expounding them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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