1. A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
   - exposition

1. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
   - elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, dilate 
2. State
   - set forth, exposit

Derived forms: expoundings

See also: exponent, expository

Type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate, interpretation

• hard times
• hard up
• hard water
• hard wheat
• hard worker
• hard-and-fast
• hard-baked
• hard-bitten
• hard-boiled
• hard-boiled egg
• hard-cooked egg
• hard-fought
• hard-hitting
• hard-nosed
• hard-of-hearing
• hard-on
• hard-pressed
• hard-shell
• hard-shell clam
• hard-shell crab
• hard-shelled
• hard-skinned puffball
• hard-to-please
• hard-wearing
• hard-won