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elaborate   (TTS Sound)

The verb elaborate has 4 senses

• elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate -- (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation")


• elaborate -- (produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey")


• complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate -- (make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern")


• elaborate, work out -- (work out in detail; "elaborate a plan")

The adj elaborate has 2 senses

• elaborate, luxuriant -- (marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern")


• detailed, elaborate, elaborated -- (developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme")