expound
verb (used with object)
to set forth or state in detail.
have expounded
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present perfectof expound.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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While the brothers have largely retreated from public view this week, they have expounded on their philosophy in interviews over the past two years.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2022
That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Methinks I had some apprehension of the difference in myself, but I could not have expounded it thus clearly.”
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
It would have expounded the Gaelic propaganda then beginning, though Dr Hyde had, as yet, no league, our old stories, our modern literature—everything that did not demand any shred or patch of government.
From The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Would our Parks, our Palfreys, our Prescotts, our Emersons, have expounded this matter so clearly?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
