talk through

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talk through (third-person singular simple present talks through, present participle talking through, simple past and past participle talked through)

  1. (transitive) To tell (someone) step by step how to do something.
    Synonym: walk through
    The dispatcher will have to talk him through landing the plane in the middle of a hurricane!
  2. To comfort someone as they endure trauma; to help someone consider an issue or see certain aspects of it.
    I'll talk him through the problem.
    She's utterly grief-stricken, so I'm going over to talk her through it.

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