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expounding

[ ik-spoun-ding ]

noun

  1. a detailed explanation, discursion, or interpretation:

    I have no natural taste for study, expounding, or poring over tomes.



adjective

  1. being someone or something that explains or interprets:

    The book is an expounding collection of tales, brimming with translated historical and cultural anecdotes.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of expounding1

First recorded in 1735–45; expound ( def ) + -ing 1( def ) for the noun; expound ( def ) + -ing 2( def ) for the adjective
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But when topics turn elsewhere — their biggest Hollywood regrets, for example, or expounding on who should join them on the Mt.

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Tanton kindles a small fire of twigs inside a metal pitcher, while expounding for the camera about ecology and overpopulation.

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I also have stuff that maybe was in the special that I have worked on, just expounding my feelings about it all.

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“No,” Servais said, trying to be stubborn before laughing and expounding.

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Rather than expounding a confident narrative, it shows its work with near-obsessive precision, packing paragraphs with data and statistical analysis, and then pausing every few pages to pull it all together into an eloquent chart.

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