Usually means: Explain, elaborate on a subject.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. expound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expound, expound: Wordnik
  7. expound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expound: Wiktionary
  9. expound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Expound, expound: Dictionary.com
  13. expound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Expound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. expound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. expound: Rhymezone
  17. Expound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. expound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. expound: Free Dictionary
  20. expound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. expound: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. expound: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expound: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expound: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expound: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length
verb:  (intransitive, with on or upon) To make a statement, especially at length.

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