Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Verb: expound  ik'spawnd or ek'spawnd
  1. Describe and explain in detail
    "The professor expounded her new theory" ;"The professor dilated upon his new theory";
    - 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