Expatiate

Word EXPATIATE
Character 9
Hyphenation ex pa ti ate
Pronunciations /ɛkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Expatiate"

What do we mean by expatiate?

To speak or write at length. intransitive verb

To wander freely. intransitive verb

To move at large; rove without prescribed limits; wander without restraint.

To enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in argument or discussion: with on or upon.

To allow to range at large; give free exercise to; expand; broaden.

To range at large, or without restraint. intransitive verb

To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant. intransitive verb

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. transitive verb

To range at large, or without restraint. verb

To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant. verb

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden. verb

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

To range at large, or without restraint.

To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.

To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.

Another term for expedite, often used erroneously by management. Urban Dictionary

To ramble on and on when nobody cares; Inability to STFU AKA “diarrhea of the mouth” Urban Dictionary

To ramble on and on when nobody cares AKA “diarrhea of the mouth” Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Expatiate

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The word "expatiate" in example sentences

Godwin offers a glowing description of this future state, where all people share equally in the "bounties of nature" and are free to "expatiate" in the realms of intellectual discovery: ❋ Unknown (2001)

And why would we need a critic to expatiate on his/her emotional reactions in this way? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Really there is no need to expatiate upon the change, except to point out that social media by its very nature engages this cultural shift. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Listening to him expatiate on his role, he sometimes sounds like a man trying to shadow all the big offices of state. ❋ Chief Political Commentator (2010)

You want to hear me expatiate on the plethora of Clintonians filling the Obama Administration? ❋ Unknown (2008)

To expatiate on the “binary collapse” and “epistemological flippage” brought about by “the erosion of the once-secure border distinction between the private and public spheres.” ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)

I guess they think it would just be "cool" if a woman were in the oval office and it would expatiate some of their sexist guilt at the same time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Having given you this general idea and description of the law of nations; need I expatiate on its dignity and importance? ❋ Unknown (2009)

He then proceeded to expatiate on every sort of rustic enormity of which he accused Benjie. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Global warming aside, our energy policies are serving to expatiate the process. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then the host began motioning with his hand as though he were giving my brother a mouthful; and ceased not to enumerate and expatiate upon the various dishes to the hungry man whose hunger waxt still more violent, so that his soul lusted after a bit of bread, even a barley scone. 690 Quoth the Barmecide, “Didst thou ever taste anything more delicious than the seasoning of these dishes?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Politicians on the left and right love to expatiate on the need to defend "traditional" marriage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If Edgar thought his daughter of a disposition with which his own could not sympathise, it were vain to expatiate upon her virtues or her sweetness; that one doubt previously taken might mar their assimilating efficacy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If I liken humanity to a woman, I shall not expatiate upon her youth's being on the wane and the approach of her middle-age. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Then would I salute the strangers courteously, and expatiate to their astonished minds upon crypts and chancels, and naves, arches, Gothic and Saxon architraves, mullions and flying buttresses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm really looking forward to hearing Bush expatiate on how he saved Los Angeles through his illegal domestic surveillance program, how he brought democracy to the Iranian oil fields, and how he singlehandedly won the Long War. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No doubt, Dr. Lakoff could expatiate more eloquently on the emotional and linguistic dynamics of the bullying narrative, but time is running out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thiebault, however, continued to expatiate on the fame of the mountain and monastery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Scottish village, than, an abbess in this miserable house of Saint Bride; nor was even that poor object of ambition, on which my father used to expatiate when desirous of persuading me to enter the monastic state by milder means than throwing me off the battlements, long open to me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Seems like] every [ER] is expatiated [these days]. ❋ DNVOPS (2008)

You [expatiate] more than [Kanye] [on crack]. ❋ F. Tony Scarapiducci (2022)

You [expatiate] more than [Kanye] [on crack]. ❋ F. Tony Scarapiducci (2022)

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