Synonym: detail, develop, dwell on, work out. Antonym: plain, rude, simple. Similar words: laboratory, collaboration, labor, laboriously, decorate, corporate, incorporate, abortion. Meaning: [ɪ'læbərət] v. 1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing 2. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product 3. make more complex, intricate, or richer 4. work out in detail. adj. 1. marked by complexity and richness of detail 2. developed or executed with care and in minute detail.
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121. Now so many knitters can use it this seems the perfect time to elaborate upon it.
122. Paul gestured towards the biggest muntjac suspended from the carrying pole and made an elaborate gesture of donation.
123. He did not typically employ elaborate statistics to test hypotheses or use control groups in his research.
124. To elaborate a little further, it is useful to examine each of the main types of subdivisions, as follows. 1.
125. It was still not clear last night whether the tapes were an elaborate hoax.
126. As organisms evolved to populate land, they required an elaborate mechanism of water conservation.
127. Despite a very elaborate legal code on the use of pesticides, introduced in 1973, the situation remains unchanged.
128. Dave worked in the production department of a company that put on industrials, elaborate musical numbers for industrial conventions.
129. I knew it would be an elaborate fantasy, a courtship, a serenade.
130. I sent him back to the Patel farm with his snake bite and his elaborate complaints.
131. It is also true that several novelists, such as Carpentier and Fuentes, delight in weaving elaborate, formal patterns.
132. The price of a more elaborate service and burial looks to be £17,000.
133. So those who espouse equal opportunity need to elaborate its purpose.
134. Most of the decor in this part of the house was modelled after Hollywood's idea of elaborate period furnishings.
135. The more elaborate the ornament, the more likely that a random mutation will make the ornament less elaborate, not more.
136. We learned a copperplate at my convent, with elaborate curlicues of capitals I have not seen in any other calligraphy.
137. The degree of formality ranged from elaborate and schematic written documents to a simple mental rehearsal of what would happen next.
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139. This aspect of the deal was necessary because Altus Finance needed to unwind an elaborate scheme it had concocted in 1991.
140. The elaborate public displays of those royal families had always camouflaged the most ruthless power struggles.
141. There is little doubt that higher cognitive functions are associated with complex social life and elaborate means of communication.
142. In circumstances when words are inappropriate or impractical, the apology may take the form of an elaborate pantomime of contrition.
143. Eighteenth-century maps of historic towns often show elaborate formal gardens behind the houses, but very few traces of these remain.
144. You can elaborate on this sampler idea by putting the words inside another design.
145. Newman and Redford play a couple of guys working an elaborate con.
146. It has required elaborate organization, but this has been the product of continuous evolution from the original entrepreneurial enterprise.
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147. Sometimes I created elaborate scenarios that tested my will to save him.
148. Hume gives an elaborate account of the psychology of moral feeling.
149. Although the rules which provide its definition are surprisingly simple, the set itself exhibits an endless variety of highly elaborate structure.
150. The reasoning was elaborate, the product of nonstop local gossip since a series of strange events on June 5.
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