expatiate
verb
[ ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt ]
• speak or write in detail about.
• "she expatiated on working-class novelists"
Similar:
hold forth about,
speak/write at length about,
pontificate about,
discourse on,
expound,
go into detail about,
go on about,
dwell on,
expand on,
enlarge on,
elaborate on,
amplify,
embellish,
spout about,
sound off about,
perorate on,
dilate on,
dissertate on,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘roam freely’): from Latin exspatiari ‘move beyond one's usual bounds’, from ex- ‘out, from’ + spatiari ‘to walk’ (from spatium ‘space’).
