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.
Here she entered hurriedly and ascended to a room where a handsome young lady in an elaborate house dress was looking anxiously out the window.
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.
The doctor has certainly played the game for all it is worth, and one would like to know the reason for such elaborate deception.
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