spell out (English, verb)
expansion: spell out (third-person singular simple present spells out, present participle spelling out, simple past and past participle spelled out or (chiefly UK) spelt out)
Senses:
glosses: To form (a word) from letters; say the letters in a word.
tags: transitive
qualifier: when writing or editing
glosses: To replace an acronym with its expansion.
tags: transitive
glosses: To explain in clear and simple terms; to be explicit.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: spells out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spelling out
tags: participle
present
form: spelled out
tags: participle
past
form: spelled out
tags: past
form: spelt out
tags: UK
participle
past
form: spelt out
tags: UK
past