Add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments:
— The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel.

synonym: footnote.

Roget 522: interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.    find out etc. 480.1 the meaning of, etc. 516 read; spell out, make out; decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines.    account for; find the cause, tell the cause of etc. 153; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.    illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize etc. (render intelligible) 518.    take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.    ... show more

Dutch: kanttekeningen maken, aantekeningen maken, annoteren

Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases:
— He annotated on what his teacher had written.

synonyms: comment, gloss.