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expoundverb 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 air, express, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice advertise, announce, declare, enounce, enunciate, proclaim, saybroadcast, circulate, disseminate, publishdescribe, write, write upsound off, speak out, speak upchime incommunicate, convey, put across, put overoffer, submit give air to, put forth stifle, suppress censor, restrain, restrict to make plain or understandableat the start of the trial the judge expounded the legal difference between libel and slander to the jury clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explain, explicate, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle decipher, decodeanalyze, break downdisentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangleresolve, solvedefine, specifyannotate, commentate, gloss obscure befog, cloudconfound, confuse, obfuscate 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 in the 14th century |