Expound: alternatives and connections

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

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To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by inc…

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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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To range at large, or without restraint.

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To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

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Depicted.

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To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

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A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To show or illustrate by example.

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To make clear, bright, or luminous.

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The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.

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A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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To mention specially; to particularize.

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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by inc…

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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

To range at large, or without restraint.

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To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

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