expatiate
verbWord Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘roam freely’): from Latin exspatiari ‘move beyond one's usual bounds’, from ex- ‘out, from’ + spatiari ‘to walk’ (from spatium ‘space’).
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they expatiate | |
he / she / it expatiates | |
past simple expatiated | |
past participle expatiated | |
-ing form expatiating |