Thesaurus / expatiate
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In the East, imagination is at liberty to expatiate on past grandeur, wisdom, and politeness.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAMAs to the comparison between the two ladies, I will expatiate more on that subject, (for I like it,) when I have had them both.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 6 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSONMrs. Evelyn let John expatiate on her daughter's heroism till steps were heard approaching, and his aunt knocked at the door.
MAGNUM BONUMCHARLOTTE M. YONGEBut we must not expatiate on its effects; we must only give a little attention to the means by which they are achieved.
THE ENGLISH NOVELGEORGE SAINTSBURYI'll warrant ye, the Sergeant no' troubled himself to expatiate on the renown of the country where his regiment was raised?
THE PATHFINDERJAMES FENIMORE COOPERI shall not expatiate on my oeconomical affairs, which cannot be instructive or amusing to the reader.
MEMOIRS OF MY LIFE AND WRITINGSEDWARD GIBBONShe felt that though she would have delighted to expatiate on this great triumph, she must be silent at present.
THE WAY WE LIVE NOWANTHONY TROLLOPETo expatiate upon the importance of thought would be absurd.
HOW WE THINKJOHN DEWEYI could expatiate on this subject, from what comes every day within my own knowledge.
THE POWER OF FAITHISABELLA GRAHAMThis is a matter on which so little is known, that we are induced to expatiate upon it.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 431VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO EXPATIATE
- add to
- aggrandize
- amplify
- augment
- beef up
- blow up
- boost
- broaden
- build
- bulk
- develop
- diffuse
- dilate
- distend
- elaborate
- elongate
- embroider
- exaggerate
- expand
- expatiate
- extend
- give details
- grow
- grow larger
- heighten
- inflate
- jack up
- jazz up
- lengthen
- magnify
- make larger
- mount
- multiply
- pad
- pyramid
- rise
- slap on
- snowball
- spread
- stretch
- swell
- upsurge
- wax
- widen
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