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elaborate
Overview of verb elaborate
The verb elaborate has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (7) 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")
2. elaborate -- (produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey")
3. complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate -- (make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern")
4. elaborate, work out -- (work out in detail; "elaborate a plan")
Overview of adj elaborate
The adj elaborate has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (9) elaborate, luxuriant -- (marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern")
2. (4) 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")
Grep of noun elaborate
elaborateness
Antonyms of verb elaborate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb elaborate
4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> explain, explicate
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
elaborate
=> produce, make, create
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 4
elaborate, work out
=> develop, make grow
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb elaborate
2 of 4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> detail
=> set forth, expound, exposit
=> exemplify, illustrate, instance
=> specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> involve
=> develop
=> sophisticate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb elaborate
4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
Sense 2
elaborate
=> produce, make, create
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 4
elaborate, work out
=> develop, make grow
'Cause To' of verb elaborate
Derived Forms of verb elaborate
4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#3
=> expansion, enlargement, elaboration
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#1
=> amplification, elaboration
Sense 2
elaborate
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#5
=> elaboration, working out
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#2
=> refinement, elaboration
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#4
=> elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#5
=> elaboration, working out
Sense 4
elaborate, work out
RELATED TO>(noun) elaboration#5
=> elaboration, working out
Domain of verb elaborate
Domain Terms of verb elaborate
Familiarity of verb elaborate
elaborate used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Sample Sentences of verb elaborate
4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
EX: They elaborate that there was a traffic accident
Sense 2
elaborate
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
elaborate, work out
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb elaborate
4 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> demystify
=> clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
=> elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> disambiguate
Sense 2
elaborate
> produce, make, create
=> breed
=> remake, refashion, redo, make over
=> prefabricate
=> underproduce
=> output
=> pulse, pulsate
=> clap up, clap together, slap together
=> custom-make, customize, customise, tailor-make
=> dummy, dummy up
=> turn out
=> machine
=> churn out
=> overproduce
=> elaborate
=> put out
=> laminate
=> bootleg
=> generate
=> render, yield, return, give, generate
=> extrude, squeeze out
=> smelt
=> reproduce
=> prefabricate, preassemble
=> fudge together, throw together
=> print, publish
=> confect
=> proof
=> cut, burn
Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> naturalize, naturalise
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
=> even, even out
=> equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate
=> stiffen
=> loosen, loose
=> tighten, fasten
=> transitivize, transitivise
=> detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise
=> thicken, inspissate
=> full
=> diversify
=> deaden
=> check, retard, delay
=> decrease, lessen, minify
=> liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise
=> solvate
=> dissolve
=> validate
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
=> empty
=> fill, fill up, make full
=> saturate
=> clot, coagulate
=> louden
=> normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise
=> morph
=> neutralize, neutralise
=> commercialize, commercialise, market
=> purify, purge, sanctify
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> automatize, automatise, automate
=> automatize, automatise
=> mechanize, mechanise
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
=> polarize, polarise
=> glorify
=> contaminate
=> devalue
=> insulate
=> calcify
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> urbanize, urbanise
=> emulsify
=> demulsify
=> decarboxylate
=> nazify
=> fertilize, fecundate, fertilise
=> clarify
=> embrittle
=> mark
=> barb
=> nick
=> disable, disenable, incapacitate
=> enable
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
=> tender, tenderize, tenderise
=> charge
=> sweeten
=> iodinate
=> ionate
=> archaize, archaise
=> inform
=> officialize, officialise
=> occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise
=> orientalize, orientalise
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> achromatize, achromatise
=> parallel, collimate
=> camp
=> classicize, classicise
=> conventionalize, conventionalise
=> decimalize, decimalise
=> dizzy
=> poison, envenom
=> exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
=> glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise
=> introvert
=> laicize, laicise
=> politicize, politicise
=> radicalize
=> proof
=> romanticize, romanticise
=> rusticate
=> sauce
=> shallow, shoal
=> tense
=> steepen
=> scramble
=> unscramble
=> unsex
=> vitrify
=> pall
=> saponify
=> extend, expand
=> suspend, set aside
=> muddy
=> transform
=> lift, raise, elevate
=> harshen
=> dinge
=> demonize, demonise
=> devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise
=> etherealize, etherialise
=> immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise
=> animize, animise, animate
=> clear
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> dynamize, dynamise
=> rarefy, sublimate, subtilize
=> volatilize, volatilise
=> uniformize, uniformise
=> symmetrize, symmetrise
=> immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise
=> denature
=> denature
=> denature
=> sanitize, sanitise
=> verbify
=> shift
=> sputter
=> draw
=> make
=> dope
=> prostrate
=> excite
=> excite, energize, energise
=> shake
=> outmode
=> spice, spice up
=> shorten
=> think
=> make
=> deflate
=> inflate
=> reflate
=> digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize
=> masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
=> masculinize
=> disharmonize, dissonate
=> sexualize, sexualise
=> schematize, schematise
=> patent
=> constitutionalize, constitutionalise
=> rationalize, rationalise
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> rarefy
=> paganize, paganise
=> incandesce
=> deaminate, deaminize
=> angulate
=> circularize
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> sensitize, sensitise
=> depolarize, depolarise
=> intensify
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> legitimate
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> opacify
=> opsonize
=> militarize, militarise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> recommend
=> sentimentalize, sentimentalise
=> solemnize, solemnise
=> territorialize, territorialise
=> transaminate
=> transfigure, glorify, spiritualize
=> unsanctify
=> vesiculate
=> visualize, visualise
=> variegate
=> ventilate
=> vivify
=> vulgarise, vulgarize
=> supple
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> smut
=> still
=> weaponize
=> eroticize, sex up
=> piggyback
=> confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
=> confuse
=> tone down, moderate, tame
=> obfuscate
=> synchronize, synchronise
=> mince, soften, moderate
=> militarize, militarise
=> break down, crush
=> fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up
=> touch, disturb
=> dull
=> dull, blunt
=> sharpen
=> coarsen
=> loosen
=> untie, undo, loosen
=> barb
=> string
=> straighten, straighten out
=> bring
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate
=> charge
=> put
=> clean, make clean
=> dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
=> lower, depress
=> deform
=> break, break up
=> alter
=> decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
=> humanize, humanise
=> humble
=> estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect
=> right
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> deodorize, deodorise, deodourise
=> develop
=> blur
=> blind
=> change intensity
=> change taste
=> capture
=> lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
=> restore, reinstate, reestablish
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> right, compensate, redress, correct
=> democratize, democratise
=> neutralize
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
=> relax, loosen
=> unite, unify
=> flocculate
=> turn
=> make possible
=> cohere
Sense 4
elaborate, work out
> develop, make grow
=> grow
=> work out, work up
=> elaborate, work out
=> foliate
=> discipline, train, check, condition
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
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Sense 2
elaborate
=> produce, make, create
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Sense 3
complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> change, alter, modify
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Sense 4
elaborate, work out
=> develop, make grow
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Grep of verb elaborate
elaborate
Antonyms of adj elaborate
2 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, luxuriant
INDIRECT (VIA fancy) -> plain
Sense 2
detailed, elaborate, elaborated
INDIRECT (VIA careful) -> careless
Similarity of adj elaborate
2 senses of elaborate
Sense 1
elaborate, luxuriant
=> fancy (vs. plain)
Sense 2
detailed, elaborate, elaborated
=> careful (vs. careless)
Pertainyms of adj elaborate
Attributes of adj elaborate
Domain of adj elaborate
Domain Terms of adj elaborate
Familiarity of adj elaborate
elaborate used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj elaborate
elaborate
elaborated
inelaborate
unelaborate
Grep of adv elaborate
elaborately
in an elaborate way
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