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View synonyms for spell out

spell out

verb

  1. to make clear, distinct, or explicit; clarify in detail

    let me spell out the implications

  2. to read laboriously or with difficulty, working out each word letter by letter
  3. to discern by study; puzzle out
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

But to spell out what that change and modernization would involve, in racial terms?

But those who use that slogan never spell out what they think accounts for the pattern of the last 13,000 years.

She tried to spell out ‘squeeze’ in the typical way, “but it was taken.”

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E.

He still had the use of one hand, and a computer, controlled by a single lever, allowed him to spell out sentences.

It was on them that I began to spell out those signs which to the learned reveal a few faint traces of the Mighty Riddle.

I am drinking the bitter cup of expiation; but as I drink it I painfully spell out this sentence: Expiation is not annihilation.

Peter was made to spell out the first sentence two or three times over, for Heidi wished him to get it correct and fluent.

She would take it away and spell out for herself those things in the marked book that had marked the soul of the man she loved.

Then six slabs were placed in a row to spell out the sacred formula, “Om mani padme hum.”

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