MEANING
To speak or write extensively about a subject.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- expatiate on a theme
On the page
He expatiated on the family’s history.
The narrator expatiated on the empty rooms.
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Word forms
- Base
- expatiate
- Past tense
- expatiated
- Past participle
- expatiated
- Present participle
- expatiating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- expatiate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are expatiating
- Present perfect
- have/has expatiated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been expatiating
- Past
- expatiated
- Past continuous
- was/were expatiating
- Past perfect
- had expatiated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been expatiating
- Future
- will expatiate
- Future continuous
- will be expatiating
- Future perfect
- will have expatiated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been expatiating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: expatiate; expatiates; expatiated; expatiated; expatiating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: expatiates.
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