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Verb: expound  ik'spawnd or ek'spawnd
  1. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
    - elaborate, lucubrate [archaic], expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, dilate
     
  2. State
    "expound one's reasons";
    - set forth, exposit

Derived forms: expounded, expounding, expounds

Type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate

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