to say or explain something very clearly because someone has not understood something
to say or write the letters of a word in the correct order
He has used the-the grammar of your features to spell out a sentence.
It’s frustrating when you have to spell everything out for them.
Nield, twenty-eight years old, dark-haired and with a small neat black moustache, was a man you didn't have to spell out everything to.
So sit down quietly and pay attention while I spell out DOG CICERO ROLLED a cigarette and asked himself what he was doing here.
`Christ, kid, do I have to spell out the facts of life for you?
spells out
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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