detail
/dɪˈteɪl/ verb B2- To explain in detail. · I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
- To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced /ˈdiːteɪl/) · We need to have the minivan detailed.
- To assign to a particular task.
He/she/it details · Past detailed · Past participle detailed · -ing form detailing
Verb forms
- Base form
- detail
- He/she/it
- details
- Past
- detailed
- Past participle
- detailed
- -ing form
- detailing
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“I would have thanked you before, my dear aunt, as I ought to have done, for your long, kind, satisfactory detail of particulars; but, to say the truth, I was too cross to write.
He spoke well; but there were feelings besides those of the heart to be detailed, and he was not more eloquent on the subject of tenderness than of pride.
William was decoyed up and shot, and had they only got the whole of the note and paid a little more attention to detail in the accessories, it is very possible that suspicion might never have been aroused.”
I tell you, my friend, that if a detailed account of that silent contest could be written, it would take its place as the most brilliant bit of thrust-and-parry work in the history of detection.
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