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Definition
to name items individually (as though making a list); or to count- She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered
enumerated = to name items individually (as though making a list)
- The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which we propose to give the name of RADIUM.Marie Curie
- There is not enough time to enumerate all of her accomplishments.
- From memory, she can enumerate each classmate along with a distinguishing feature or two.
- Asked how the financial crisis is affecting them, they enumerate a long list: the clothing they can no longer buy, the vacations they can no longer take...Time Magazine, 2009 -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1909486,00.html (retrieved 09/16/09)
- I might offer many excuses that some would admit to be valid, but I will not attempt to enumerate themAnne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- He told himself the trouble and the pain she had caused him, he enumerated her glaring deficiencies as a wife.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams
- We then went into consideration of our several points of complaint, which I enumerated.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- Stephen began to enumerate glibly his father's attributes.James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- I enumerated these points to my two colleagues.Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express
- SEED...... " One page afterTanaina Plantlore enumerates the wild potato, it describes a closely related species, wild sweet pea, Hedysarum mackenzii.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- It would take a dozen pages to enumerate all the reproaches the historians address to him, based on their knowledge of what is good for humanity.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- "God of Death," he called out, "enumerate our strengths."Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- The one which carefully enumerated all the motorcycle parts and functions?Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Besides the elevated and more solid individuals enumerated, there were present a few younger though not less elegant guests.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- —and honest Raggles continued, in a lamentable tone, an enumeration of his griefs.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Many other advantages might be enumerated.Jonathan Swift -- A Modest Proposal
- Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
- I could enumerate more difficulties, like pangs, vexations, bellyaches, anxious nosebleeds and vomiting, continual alarms about pregnancy.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
enumerated = to name items individually
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)