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expound

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of expound

1 to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)

  • a rambling interview in which the celebrated author expounds his views on an array of topics
Synonyms of expound

air, express, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice
Words Related to expound

advertise, announce, declare, enounce, enunciate, proclaim, say

broadcast, circulate, disseminate, publish

describe, write, write up

sound off, speak out, speak up

chime in

communicate, convey, put across, put over

offer, submit
Phrases Synonymous with expound

give air to, put forth
Near Antonyms of expound

censor, restrain, restrict
Antonyms of expound

stifle, suppress

2 to make plain or understandable

  • at the start of the trial the judge expounded the legal difference between libel and slander to the jury
Synonyms of expound

clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explain, explicate, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle
Words Related to expound

decipher, decode

analyze, break down

disentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangle

resolve, solve

define, specify

annotate, commentate, gloss
Near Antonyms of expound

befog, cloud

confound, confuse, obfuscate
Antonyms of expound

obscure

Synonym Discussion of expound

explain, expound, explicate, elucidate, interpret mean to make something clear or understandable. explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known.
    • explain the rules
expound implies a careful often elaborate explanation.
    • expounding a scientific theory
explicate adds the idea of a developed or detailed analysis.
    • explicate a poem
elucidate stresses the throwing of light upon as by offering details or motives previously unclear or only implicit.
    • elucidate an obscure passage
interpret adds to explain the need for imagination or sympathy or special knowledge in dealing with something.
    • interpreting a work of art

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