| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| expound |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ex·pound |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   k-spound |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ex·pound·ed, ex·pound·ing, ex·pounds
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To give a detailed statement of; set forth: expounded the intricacies of the new tax law. 2. To explain in detail; elucidate: The speaker expounded the approach of positive thinking. See synonyms at explain. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To make a detailed statement: The professor was expounding on a favorite topic. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English expounden, from Anglo-Norman espoundre, from Latin exp nere : ex-, ex- + pnere, to place; see apo- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ex·pounder —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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