expatiate

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

verb

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
• Syn:
elaborate, lucubrate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out,
expand, expound, dilate
• Ant:
contract (for: expand)
• Derivationally related forms:
dilation (for: dilate), expository (for: expound), exponent (for: expound), expounding (for: expound), expansion (for: expand), enlargement (for: enlarge), exposition (for: exposit), expatiation, lucubration (for: lucubrate), elaboration (for: elaborate)
• Hypernyms:
clarify, clear up, elucidate
• Hyponyms:
detail, set forth, expound, exposit, exemplify,
exemplify, instance, specify, particularize, particularise,
specialize, specialise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- They expatiate that there was a traffic accident

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  elaborate, lucubrate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce