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See definition of expounding on Dictionary.com
  • as indefinition
  • as inexposition
  • as indwelling

synonyms for expounding

  • answer
  • explanation
  • interpretation
  • rationale
  • solution
  • translation
  • analogue
  • annotation
  • characterization
  • clarification
  • clue
  • comment
  • commentary
  • cue
  • delimitation
  • delineation
  • demarcation
  • denotation
  • determination
  • diagnosis
  • drift
  • elucidation
  • exemplification
  • explication
  • exposition
  • fixing
  • formalization
  • gloss
  • individuation
  • key
  • rendering
  • rendition
  • representation
  • settling
  • signification
  • terminology
  • outlining
  • statement of meaning
See also synonyms for: expoundings

antonyms for expounding

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  • question
  • ambiguity
  • nonsense
  • vagueness
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    How to use expounding in a sentence

    I call it “locker-room gender essentialism” because it reminds me of the so-called facts about the sexes that middle-school boys expounded on when the girls weren’t around.
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    In addition to reflecting on what propelled her forward, she instructs readers on birthing a movement, and she expounds what it means to join one.
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    In your book, you expound on the economic inequalities that have become increasingly stark over the last 40 years.
    THE SYSTEM IS ‘RIGGED’: ROBERT REICH ON THE SUPREME COURT, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, AND HIS TWITTER BEEF WITH ELON MUSKREYMASHAYEKHIOCTOBER 12, 2020FORTUNE
    When a point needed expounding, a horseback ride into Rosewater was not an unwelcome diversion.
    ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
    In this essay find examples of the five methods of expounding a proposition.
    ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
    Again, we find nowhere any orders to the priests or Levites to go about the country expounding or teaching the law.
    ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
    For nine months the mission from Windesheim sat in Paris, expounding, demonstrating, hoping to persuade.
    THE AGE OF ERASMUSP. S. ALLEN
    For to-day the Minister was expounding a very serious question; both Ministerialists and Opposition must listen.
    THE CONQUEST OF ROMEMATILDE SERAO
    I have no manner of natural taste for study, and poring, and expounding, and black-letter work.
    CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY
    Thus he delegated the duty of expounding the law to a man who is not a judicial officer of the United States.
    THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKER
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