elaborate
/ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/ verb C1- Тo develop in detail or complexity.
- To expand/enlarge in detail. · What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?· Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
He/she/it elaborates · Past elaborated · Past participle elaborated · -ing form elaborating
Verb forms
- Base form
- elaborate
- He/she/it
- elaborates
- Past
- elaborated
- Past participle
- elaborated
- -ing form
- elaborating
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Madame Danglars (who, although past the first bloom of youth, was still strikingly handsome) was now seated at the piano, a most elaborate piece of cabinet and inlaid work, while Lucien Debray, standing before a small work-table, was turning over the pages of an album.
The plans, which are exceedingly intricate, comprising some thirty separate patents, each essential to the working of the whole, are kept in an elaborate safe in a confidential office adjoining the arsenal, with burglar-proof doors and windows.
The man’s business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at.
I had reckoned upon solving the matter when once I had found the place referred to in the Ritual; but now I was there, and was apparently as far as ever from knowing what it was which the family had concealed with such elaborate precautions.
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