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( )); The result was that he wandered, half-
distracted, like Lear, bewailing the wound at his heart which a daughter's
hand had given. — The Adventure of Living;
• (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, ( ); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."—A Princess in Calico;
expiate expatiate = expound = exposit = explicate = elaborate = dilate
{distend} = lucubrate
• (expatiate)- to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or
discussion, ( ); It is unnecessary to expatiate on
the effect of this downright refusal of the woman's proposals. — The
Deerslayer;
• (expound)- to explain; interpret, ( ;
); But it is a craven apology if we stoop to expound: we are seen
as pleading our case before the public. — Lord Ormont and His Aminta —
Volume 1;
• (exposit)- to expound, as a theory, cause, or the like; However many of the
views they exposit are rejected by mainstream science and have been
repeatedly refuted. — Harry Clarke;
• (explicate)- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret, (
; ); There is something of the snake eating its own tail
here, since logical probability was supposed to explicate the confirmation of
scientific theories. — Interpretations of Probability;
• (dilate)- to make wider or larger; cause to expand, ( );
Her eyes began slowly to dilate, and she shivered as though with cold. — The
Malefactor;
• (lucubrate)- to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship; To lounge
and lucubrate, to prate and peep; — Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1;
• to work, write, or study laboriously, esp. at night;
languish languid
• (languish)- to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade, ( ;
; ; -
); As long as global companies are afflicted by huge capital shortages,
stock markets are likely to languish or grind downward, analysts say;
• (languid)- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow, ( ; );
Her manner was extremely languid, as of a person suffering from nervous