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[ verb ] add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

Examples

"She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

Used in print

(Clarence Streit, "How the Civil War Kept You Sovereign"...)

The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun , and defended in_the_end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee .

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[ verb ] state

Synonyms

set_forth exposit

Examples

"set forth one's reasons"

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