elaborate
verb/ɪˈlæbəreɪt/
/ɪˈlæbəreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they elaborate | /ɪˈlæbəreɪt/ /ɪˈlæbəreɪt/ |
| he / she / it elaborates | /ɪˈlæbəreɪts/ /ɪˈlæbəreɪts/ |
| past simple elaborated | /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪd/ /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle elaborated | /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪd/ /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form elaborating | /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈlæbəreɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to explain or describe something in a more detailed way
- elaborate (on/upon something) He said he was resigning but did not elaborate on his reasons.
- elaborate something She went on to elaborate her argument.
Extra Examples- Let me briefly elaborate on this.
- They refused to elaborate on the reasons for their decision.
- This point will be elaborated further in the next chapter.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- further
- at length
- briefly
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- refuse to
- …
- on
- upon
- [transitive] elaborate something to develop a plan, an idea, etc. and make it complicated or detailed
- In his plays he takes simple traditional tales and elaborates them.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘produced by effort of labour’): from Latin elaborat- ‘worked out’, from the verb elaborare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + labor ‘work’.
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