What are some opposite words for expound?
Antonyms for expound
ɪkˈspaʊndex·pound
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term expound.
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elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilateverb
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
"She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Synonyms:
work out, refine, fat, fatten, exposit, dilate, fill out, spread out, extend, amplify, blow up, rarify, lucubrate, set forth, fatten up, thrive, elaborate, magnify, plump, expatiate, inflate, expand, fatten out, flesh out, complicate, plump out, boom, enlarge, flourish, distend, roundset forth, expound, expositverb
state
"set forth one's reasons"
Synonyms:
elaborate, set forth, exposit, take off, start out, lucubrate, part, start, expatiate, expand, depart, flesh out, dilate, set out, enlarge, set off
How to use expound in a sentence?
Shame on him for coming to Colorado to expound upon our tragedies.
Hell, no, youre not, shame on him for coming to Colorado to expound upon our tragedies.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22:
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
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