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expatiate
Overview of verb expatiate
The verb expatiate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate -- (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation")
Antonyms of verb expatiate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> explain, explicate
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> detail
=> set forth, expound, exposit
=> exemplify, illustrate, instance
=> specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
'Cause To' of verb expatiate
Derived Forms of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
RELATED TO>(noun) expatiation#1
=> expatiation
Domain of verb expatiate
Domain Terms of verb expatiate
Familiarity of verb expatiate
expatiate used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
EX: They expatiate that there was a traffic accident
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb expatiate
1 sense of expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> demystify
=> clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> disambiguate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb expatiate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
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Grep of verb expatiate
expatiate
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